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This is the idea that the king was endowed by God with the power to rule a nation absolutely.
What is Divine Right of Kings?
This Puritan leader won the English Civil War, led England for nine years, and violently crushed a rebellion in Ireland.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
This group represented about 97% of the population of France, but it had very little political power.
What is the Third Estate?
This document protected Parliament from taxation without consent and prosecution by the king for expressing grievances.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The first ten amendments to the Constitution; these rights are based on Enlightenment ideas and the precedent of the English Bill of Rights.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is a physical representation of the oppression of the absolutist monarchs of France. The people of Paris attacked it on July 14, 1789.
What is the Bastille?
He was the radical Jacobin who led the Committee of Public Safety and implemented the Reign of Terror.
Who is Robespierre?
This French leader reformed the legal and education systems, but he also made the mistake of invading Russia.
Who is Napoleon?
This important event created a Constitutional Monarchy in England.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This economic system was used by the monarchs of Europe restricted trade in the Colonies and helped cause the American Revolution.
What is Mercantilism?
The radical faction of the National Convention who created the Committee for Public Safety and orchestrated the Reign of Terror.
Who were the Jacobins?
These two monarchs were asked by Parliament to become the leaders of England in 1688 because they were Protestant.
Who are William and Mary?
He rejected the Third Estate's requested for equal voting and the Estates General in 1789.
Who is Louis XVI?
By 1688 England, what type of government did England have?
What is a constitutional monarchy?
This governing document is based on Montesquieu's ideas around separation of powers.
What is The Constitution?
During the revolution, France as also at war with much of Europe beginning with Austria in 1792. This leader became popular with French citizens for his military successes in the War of the First Coalition.
Who is Napoleon?
Parliament and the King of England disagreed most often over what two issues?
What are religion and taxes?
This was the fourth government of the French Revolution; it began in 1795 and ended in 1799 with Napoleon's coup.
What is the Directory?
This is the right to be brought before a judge before being put in jail or on trial.
What is Habeas Corpus?
This action by the British impelled the colonists to organize, boycott, and revolt because they believed it violated their rights as Englishmen.
What is taxation?
What document stated the revolutionary ideals of the National Assembly in 1789?
What is the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen?