Philosophers
He was an advocate of freedom of speech, freedom of religion and separation of church and state.
Who was Voltaire?
This was a confrontation in Boston on March 5, 1770, in which nine British soldiers shot several of a crowd of three or four hundred who were harassing them verbally and throwing various projectiles
Boston Massacre
The British marched into these towns intending to suppress the possibility of rebellion by seizing weapons from the colonists.
What are Lexington and Concord?
This crowd besieged the palace and, in a dramatic and violent confrontation, they successfully pressed their demands upon King Louis XVI. The next day, the crowd forced the king, his family, and most of the French Assembly to return with them to Paris.
What was the Women's March?
This document served as the foundation of the French Revolution
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
He is the principal source of the theory of separation of powers, which is implemented in many constitutions throughout the world.
Montesquieu
This was a British-produced boundary marked in the Appalachian Mountains at the Eastern Continental Divide.
The Proclamation Line of 1763
It was adopted on July 4, 1776 by the Second Continental Congress meeting at the Pennsylvania State House, later renamed Independence Hall, in Philadelphia
Declaration of Independence
At this revolutionary event, insurgents attempted to storm and seize control of the medieval armoury, fortress and political prison known as the ???
Bastille
This was a series of massacres and numerous public executions took place in response to revolutionary fervour, anticlerical sentiment, and accusations of treason by the Committee of Public Safety
What is the reign of Terror?
As a reaction to the common policy of protecting national markets and merchants, what came to be known as mercantilism—nowadays often referred to as "cronyism" or "crony capitalism" he laid the foundations of classical free market economic theory.
Adam Smith
This act restructured the Massachusetts government to give the royally-appointed more power
Massachusetts Government Act
This was the last major land battle of the American Revolutionary War in North America, and led to the surrender of Cornwallis
What is Yorktown?
With this pledge, the 3rd Estate agreed "not to separate and to reassemble wherever necessary until the Constitution of the kingdom is established" became a pivotal event in the French Revolution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
They were the most radical and ruthless of the political groups formed in the wake of the French Revolution, and in association with Robespierre they instituted the Terror of 1793–4.
Who were the Jacobins?
His political theory was founded upon that of social contract. Unlike Thomas Hobbes, he believed that human nature is characterised by reason and tolerance.
John Locke
passed in March 1774, it closed the port from all commerce and ordered the citizens of the city to pay a large fine to compensate for the tea
Boston Port Act
This functioned as the third of eight winter encampments for the Continental Army's main body, commanded by General George Washington, during the American Revolutionary War.
What is Valley Forge?
In France under the Ancien Régime, this was a legislative and consultative assembly of the different classes of French subjects.
What is the États-Généraux
He praised the revolutionary government and argued that terror and virtue were necessary:
Robespierre
He is considered the father of modern criminal law and the father of criminal justice
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
This was the unofficial British policy where parliamentary rules and laws were loosely or not enforced on the American colonies and trade
Salutary Neglect
Once news of Britain's surrender at this battle reached France, King Louis XVI decided to enter into negotiations with the Americans that resulted in a formal Franco-American alliance and French entry into the war.
What is Saratoga?
This is a term used to describe a form of monarchical power that is unrestrained by all other institutions, such as churches, legislatures, or social elites
What is Absolutism?
He brought an end to the French Revolution, bringing a new age of imperialism to France
Who was Napoleon?