French Revolution
Who became dictator during the Reign of Terror?
Maximillian Robespierre
How many colonies were in attendance at the First Continental Congress?
12
In a Monarchy, how is the crown passed on?
Passed down through family
What is the Quartering act?
Citizens were forced to house soldiers.
Maximillian Robespierre was the leader of what group?
Jacobins
Which estate class made up the peasants?
Third Estate
In what way did the Boston Tea Party serve as a unifying event for the colonists?
It encouraged them to unite in order to seek independence
The American Revolution inspired the French to fight for what?
Natural Rights
What was the primary reason American colonists protested during the Boston Tea Party?
They were upset about British taxation without representation.
Which form of government relies on elected representatives to make decisions on behalf of the people?
Republic
What is stated as the primary purpose of government according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man
To preserve natural rights
How many colonies signed the Declaration of Independence?
All 13
The Townshend acts led directly to which event?
Boston Massacre
Passed in 1767, these acts taxed imported goods like glass, paper, and tea and helped pay the salaries of British officials in the colonies.
What are the Townshend Acts?
In 1789, French citizens stormed this fortress prison, marking the symbolic start of the French Revolution.
Bastille
Which group wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
Third Estate
What document eventually replaced the Continental Congress?
The U.S. Constitution
The Tea Act led the Sons of Liberty to do what...?
Boston Tea Party
Colonists argued that this principle was violated by taxes like the Stamp Act, claiming they shouldn’t be taxed without their consent through elected representatives.
No taxation without representation
She was a queen of France during the Revolution, famously associated with the phrase “Let them eat cake.”
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Napoleon crowned himself....what?
Emperor
Signed in 1783, this treaty officially ended the American Revolution and recognized the United States as an independent nation.
The Treaty of Paris
Which sequence of events occurred in the correct chronological order?
Tea Act → Boston Massacre → Intolerable Acts → Second Continental Congress
Stamp Act → Boston Massacre → Boston Tea Party → First Continental Congress
Proclamation of 1763 → Boston Tea Party → Stamp Act → Townshend Acts
Boston Massacre → Tea Act → Stamp Act → Intolerable Acts
Stamp Act → Boston Massacre → Boston Tea Party → First Continental Congress
This series of acts, also called the Coercive Acts, were passed in 1774 in response to colonial protests and included measures like closing Boston Harbor.
Intolerable Acts
Napoleon’s 1803 legal code, still influential today, promoted equality of men, protection of property, and secular law.
Code Napoleon