Chapter 16

•  led to greater social equality and liberation from foreign rule
• Enlarged voting rights by 1914 major states of Western Europe, the United States and Argentina had universal male suffering

• The abolishment of slavery ended around the world between 1780 and 1890

• Enlightenment thinkers were increasingly critical of slavery

• American and French Revolution focused attention on slavery and the lack of liberty and equality 

• Growing belief that slavery wasn't necessary for economic progress

• Most Latin American countries abolished slavery by 1850's

• Revolutionary movements gave new prominence to more recent kind of human community - The nation 
• Most important loyalties were clan, villages or region

• A feminist movement developed in the 19th century especially in Europe and North America

• Europe enlightenment thinkers sometimes challenged the idea that woman were innately inferior 
• Feminist spread beyond Europe and the United States but less widely that other nationalism