Causes of the French Revolution
This estate paid most of the taxes despite having the least power.
What is the Third Estate?
This event on July 14, 1789, is seen as the symbolic start of the revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Napoleon rose to power by promising this during chaos.
What is peace/stability?
The leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L’Ouverture?
Thinkers like Montesquieu and Voltaire are associated with this intellectual movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
Rising prices on this staple food pushed many peasants toward revolt.
What is bread?
Members of the Third Estate swore this oath to create a new constitution. (the name pertains to where it was held)
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Napoleon’s legal code that spread equality (for men) and legal order.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
The Haitian Revolution was primarily a revolt of this oppressed group.
Who are enslaved Africans?
The belief that kings receive their power from God was known as what?
What is divine right?
French support for this foreign revolution increased France’s debt.
What is the American Revolution?
This period, led by Robespierre, involved mass executions of “enemies of the revolution.”
What is the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon’s attempt to block trade with Great Britain was called the ___ System.
What is the Continental System?
This revolutionary helped lead independence movements in Venezuela and other regions.
Who is Simón Bolívar?
Under the Tokugawa Shogunate, Japan followed policies of limited contact known as what?
What is isolationism?
Louis XVI called this meeting in 1789 for the first time in over 150 years.
What is the Estates-General?
This King's weak rule was part of the reason for the French Revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI?
This failed invasion marked the beginning of Napoleon’s downfall.
What is the invasion of Russia?
Where is Haiti located?
What is the Caribbean Sea?
These three estates existed in France before the revolution.
What are the King/clergy, nobility, and commoners?
Enlightenment thinkers inspired the revolution. Name the thinker who argued for natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
What binding document did the people of France desire to govern themselves, instead of the traditional absolute monarchy under a King?
A Constitution.
In 1815, Napoleon was defeated for the final time at this battle.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
Two major geographic obstacles that Bolívar faced while fighting for independence.
What are the Andes Mountains and the Amazon rainforest?
What practice allowed empires, such as the Ottomans and Mughals, to keep their population peaceful and welcoming?
What is Religious Tolerance?