Haitian Revolution Key Terms

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Across
  1. 1. white merchants, white elites, and white landowners.
  2. 5. second largest island of the West Indies, consisting of Haiti and Dominican Republic.
  3. 6. emperor of Haiti who proclaimed his country’s independence in 1804.
  4. 8. what is now known as Dominican Republic.
  5. 9. French general who attempted to suppress the Haitian revolt led by the former slave Toussaint Louverture.
  6. 10. , a mulatto who had lobbied the Parisian assembly for colonial reforms including equality between blacks and whites and representation of free blacks in government.
  7. 12. white peasants and white working class
  8. 14. indigenous people of Dominican Republic and Haiti.
Down
  1. 2. French legal term denoting a freedman or emancipated slave.
  2. 3. a French colony on the Caribbean island of Hispaniola from 1659 to 1804, in what is now Haiti.
  3. 4. leader of the Haitian independence movement and known as the "Father of Haiti"
  4. 7. people of mixed African and European ancestry.
  5. 9. decree by King Louis XIV that defined the conditions of slavery in the French colonial empire.
  6. 11. of Knives, civil war between Toussaint Louverture and André Rigaud over the control of Haiti.
  7. 13. the last major battle of the Haitian Revolution lead by Jean-Jacques Dessalines.