This is the country that the North American colonies were decedent from.
What is England?
100
This is how many Estates made up French Society.
What is three?
100
This man was beheaded in 1793 by the radical Jacobins.
Who is King Louis XVI?
100
This is the year that Napoleon Bonaparte came to power.
When is 1799?
100
The Articles of Confederation gave more power to these.
What are the states?
200
This is the document that the Second Continental Congress wrote.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
This document said that every man was born with natural rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
200
This man led the Committee of Public Safety.
Who is Robespierre?
200
This is the type of government Napoleon set up after he came to power in 1799.
What is a Consulate?
200
These people made up the 2nd Estate in France?
Who are the nobles?
300
This tax was imposed by the British on the American colonies and taxed printed materials, cards and dice.
What is the Stamp Act of 1765?
300
The National Assembly pledged this oath saying they would meet until they wrote a Constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
300
This was the name given to part of the French Revolution that was extremely violent. In fact around 40,000 people were killed.
What is the Reign of Terror?
300
This code of laws preserved many of the ideas of the revolution including religious tolerance, all citizens being equal under the law and the abolition of serfdom.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
300
This event in Massachusetts involved British troops firing on a colonial mob.
What is the Boston Massacre?
400
This document was written in 1787 by the Continental Congress and lays out the laws of the United States of America.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
400
After hearing rumors that the Kings troops were coming to suppress them, members of the 3rd Estate stormed this old armory/jail.
What is the Bastille?
400
This was the name given to the 5 executive leaders who took over after the Reign of Terror.
Who are the Directors?
400
This man defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo.
Who is the Duke of Wellington?
400
This document set up a limited monarchy in France in 1791.
What is the Constitution of 1791?
500
This is the name for the 12 delegates who first met to write up a petition to King George concerning the Coercive Acts.
What is the First Continental Congress?
500
This is what the peasants of the Paris Commune called themselves. It meant "without breeches".
What is sans-culotte?
500
This man took over in 1799 after a coup d’état?
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
500
In 1804, Napoleon crowned himself this.
What is the Emperor of France?
500
This Greek philosopher said there were two types of political revolutions. One involved changing a constitution completely. The other involved modifying the constitution.