This unpopular French king tried to raise taxes which contributed to the revolution
What is King Louis XVI
100
Britain needed to raise taxes in the 1760s in America because it needed money for its global war with this country
What is France
100
Before 1789 this estate in France paid all of the taxes and had very little political power
What is the Third Estate
100
U.S. Constitution was one of the first lasting efforts to put this European era of political ideas into practice
What is the Enlightenment
200
This document declared that we were going to war with England
What is the Declaration of Independence
200
In 1793 the king and queen were executed by this death device of the revolution
What is the guillotine
200
NJ's sales tax is this %
What is 7%
200
These people were not part of Thomas Jefferson's view of we are all born with life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Who are slaves (African-Americans)
200
Thousands of soldiers from this nation fought for the American revolutionaries putting them into further debt contributing to their own revolution
What is France
300
He was the King of England that we no longer wanted as the our king
Who is King George (III)
300
This Prison/fortress in Paris was stormed for weapons by the people of France to protect themselves from the Kings soldiers on July 14th, 1789
What is the Bastille
300
America's sales tax is an example of this type of tax that applies evenly to all people rich or poor
What is a flat tax
300
African Americans were counted as this much of a person in the US population
What is 3/5th of a person
300
He would rule France as an emperor from 1799–1814 just 10 years after the people of France overthrew their King
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte
400
Weak federal authority undermined the power of this document the first failing constitution of the United States
What is the Articles of Confederation
400
The Third Estate representatives broke loose and declared themselves this new government in 1789
What is the National Assembly
400
Pre French Revolutionary France's tax system, with the poorest being taxed the heaviest, was the opposite of America's tax system today which uses this type of tax, where the more you make the higher you are taxed
What is a Progressive (graduated) tax
400
The French and American Revolutions eliminated this class of people who inherited there privileged upper class status
What is Nobility
400
The king's soldiers locked the Third Estate out of there Assembly hall forcing them to meet in what type of structure to create their new constitution
What is a Tennis Court
500
Early Unequal American Math in 1787:
When determining a state's total population for legislative representation and taxing purposes, How many total people would exist out of the following list.
20 African Americans
8 White Americans
What is 20 people
500
These were the often wealthy professional "middle class" of the third estate who lacked political power
What is bourgeoisie
500
In Boston, on December 16, 1773 demonstrators from this group , some disguised as American Indians, destroyed an entire shipment of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act
What are the Sons of Liberty
500
This National Assembly passed this document that introduced the ideas of equality and natural rights to the man, but not the women of France
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
500
1793 and 1794 is known as this scary period in French history because the Committee of Political Safety killed tens of thousands of people regarded as enemies of the revolution