AMERICAN REVOLUTION – CAUSES
What was a main cause of the American Revolution?
British taxes / lack of representation
100 – What event involved colonists dumping tea into a harbor?
Answer: Boston Tea Party
100 – What group made up most of the French population?
Answer: Third Estate
100 – What event started the French Revolution?
Answer: Storming of the Bastille
100 – What idea connects both revolutions?
Answer: Enlightenment ideas
What phrase showed colonial anger about taxes?
"No taxation without representation"
200 – What British act taxed printed materials?
Answer: Stamp Act
200 – Which group paid most taxes in France before 1789?
Answer: Third Estate
200 – What oath promised to write a constitution in France?
Answer: Tennis Court Oath
200 – What system of government did both revolutions oppose?
Answer: Absolute monarchy
300 – Which war put Britain into debt before taxing the colonies?
Answer: Seven Years’ War
300 – What document declared independence from Britain?
Answer: Declaration of Independence
300 – What major problem helped cause the French Revolution?
Answer: Debt and food shortages
300 – What document listed rights in revolutionary France?
Answer: Declaration of the Rights of Man
300 – Why did France support the American Revolution?
Answer: To weaken Britain
400 – Why did colonists want self-government?
Answer: They had experience with local rule
400 – Who wrote most of the Declaration of Independence?
Answer: Thomas Jefferson
400 – Why were French peasants angry in 1789?
Answer: High taxes and hunger
400 – What period involved mass executions in France?
Answer: Reign of Terror
400 – What was a result of the American Revolution?
Answer: Independence and a republic
500 – Which British actions increased unity among colonists?
Answer: Intolerable Acts
500 – What Enlightenment idea says people have natural rights?
Answer: Natural rights
500 – Which revolution inspired the French Revolution?
Answer: American Revolution
500 – Who took power after the French Revolution?
Answer: Napoleon Bonaparte
500 – How were the outcomes of the two revolutions different?
Answer: America became stable, France became unstable