Important Ideas
It happened during 1775-1783 when the American colonists fought for their independence from Great Britain.
American Revolution
British Parliament felt it should do what?
Tell the colonists what to do.
What writing did this statement come from? "That to secure the rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed."
Declaration of Independence
He was the last king of France before the fall of the monarchy during the French Relvolution.
Louis XVI
What type of government is without a King, in which citizens are given the right to elect their representatives.
Republic
Who was Simon Bolivar?
He led the fight of independence from Spain.
What did the colonists pay? Who were they helping?
Duty taxes/East India Company
Name two volunteers who traveled from France and Poland to America to assist the colonists.
Marquis de Lafayaette and Tadeuz Kosciuszko
A climactic period of state-sanctioned violence during the French Revolution.
Regin of Terror
Committee of Public Safety
A committee of the National Convention which formed the provisional government and war cabinet during the Reign of Terror
U.S. Contitution, Americans adapted the ideas of___?
Montesquieu
Religious beliefs and the legacy of the ___________ and _______________ ideals all influenced the outbreak of the American Revolution.
Glorious Revolution of 1688 and Enlightenment
In 1783, the Americans sent represntatives to a ___.
Constitutional Convention
Nationalism
Loyalty and devotion to a nation.
What was the impact of Napoleon on France, Europe and the rest of the world.
Created stability by establishing the Code Napoleon, a law code that consolidated such achievements of the Revolutions as social equality, religious equality, religious toleration and trial by jury. He seized a large portion of Europe, introdduce the ideas of the French Revolution and ending feudal restrictions and serform wherever he conquered. French rule stimulated the growth of Nationlism.
France was soon at war with Europe, French leader introduced mass conscription and a___________?
Reign of Terror
Who published the Common Sense pamphlet?
Thomas Paine
The new __________ created a system in which power was share between the national government and state governments.
U.S. Constitution
Estates General
It was a meeting of the three estates of pre-revolutionary France: clergy, nobility, and commons. It happened in 1789.
William Wilberforce
An English Reformer and devot Christian, that was horrified the way slaves were threated. He lead the fight to abolish slavery in England.
Social divisions, Enlightenment ideas, and a severe financial crisis triggered what?
The French Revolution
It meant that individuals were entitled to all the rights of Englishmen gained in ______________, ___________. _________________, and ______________.
It gave the government branches several ways to "check" the other branches is known as what system?
Checks and Balances
Liberty, Equality, Fraternity
A famous slogan of the French Revolution. Men and women are born and remain free and equal in rights.
Explain the revolution ideas that happened in Latin America.
The Latin American leaders refused to return to Spanish rule and demand inpendence. Brazil declared its independence from Portugal in 1823. In 1824, Latin American independence was firmly established.