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The Haitian Revolution led to intensified debates about liberty and equality and increased fears of slave uprisings in the French empire. Which revolution had this influence?
Correct Answer:
The Haitian Revolution.
Explanation:
The Haitian Revolution directly challenged who could claim liberty and equality, showing that enslaved people could organize, resist, and win independence. Its success in Saint-Domingue forced powerful debates in revolutionary France about universal rights and citizenship beyond white, property-owning men, while simultaneously heightening fears among slaveholding elites in the French empire that similar uprisings could erupt elsewhere. The other revolutions revolve around different contexts: the American Revolution influenced ideas of rights and self-government but not as directly about slave uprisings within the French empire; the Industrial Revolution centers on economic and technological change; the Glorious Revolution concerns political power in Britain. So the Haitian Revolution is the one that had this specific influence.

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