American Revolution
The American Revolution grew out of conflict between Great Britain and...
Who are American Colonists?
This was the old French social and political system.
What is the Ancien Regime?
This document was drafted in 1789 to declare the liberty and equality of the French people.
What is the Declaration of Man and Citizen?
This group was named as the radical political faction involved in the Reign of Terror.
This man brought reform to after the French Revolution in a gradual form.
Who was Edmund Burke?
Colonists objected to taxes demanded by the British by these two acts.
What are the Stamp and Townshend Acts?
The Second Estate was made up of this group of people.
What is the nobility?
The French Constitution of 1789 established this type of monarchy.
What is limited monarchy?
This man was the leading radical associated with the Reign of Terror.
Who was Robespierre?
This belief system calls for gradual reform and caution toward change.
The colonies declared independence in this year.
What is 1776?
This was the name of France's representative assembly.
The French Constitution of 1789 included this principle, also found in the American Constitution that provided a way for governmental power to be divided.
This organization was originally formed to protect civilians and maintain order.
What was the Committee of Public Safety?
This is the term for a shared sense of identity, loyalty and pride in one's nation.
What is nationalism?
This document explained why the colonies were separating from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This promise declared no one would disperse until a new constitution was formed.
Revolutionaries abolished special privileges for these two powerful groups.
What is the nobility and clergy?
What was the Thermidorian Reaction?
The French Revolution was responsible for creating this feeling toward the old ways of the feudal system.
What is anti-monarchial?
These two Enlightenment ideals helped shape the American Declaration of Independence.
What are natural rights and the consent of the goverened?
This prison and fortress was overrun by protesters in a a major act of resistance.
What is Bastille?
What is the First Republic of France?
This King was executed in the Reign of Terror in January 1793.
Who was King Louis XVI?
Nationalism helped set the stage for the development of these types of states.