Background
Events
People
Napoleon Age
American Revolution
100
10 percent
What percentage of land did the church own?
100
Bastille
What was the building with artillery that people stormed?
100
Robespierre
Who was the main leader that established the Reign of Terror and was a part of the Committee of Public Safety?
100
Napoleon saved the Nat conuntion from a parisian mob and was made commander of the French army in Italy.
What happened on October 1795?
100
Great Britain
At the end of the Seven Years' War in 1763, which country became the world's greatest colonial power?
200
They held many leading positions in government, the military, the law courts, and higher church offices.
What role did the nobility play in the second estate?
200
Estates General
Who was called to raise taxes?
200
Girondins
Who favored a policy of expanding the French Revolution beyond French borders?
200
Coup of 1799
What was the name of the new form of Representatives that was proclaimed with a constitution that established a bicameral legislative?
200
Stamp Act
What law was an attempt to levy new taxes which led to riots and a quick repeal in 1765?
300
The nobility of the robe derived their status from office holding pathways that had often enabled commoners to attain noble ranks and the nobility of the sword claim to be desendents of the original medieval nobility.
What is the difference between the nobility of the rove and the nobility of the sword?
300
The National Asssembly
What assembly did the third estate write a new constitution under?
300
Marat
Who was a newspaper writer
300
Clergy
What is the exempt of taille?
300
Thomas Jefferson
Who wrote The Second Continental Congress that approved a Declaration of Independence?
400
The military, church, and government.
What were some of the nobles' monopolistic controls in some positions?
400
Women's March to Versailles
What was the name of the event where Parisian women rioted in demand for bread?
400
Louis XVI
Who was a king of France and was useless
400
France's Chief Tax
What is taille?
400
Declaration of Independence
What document affirmed the natural rights of "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness"?
500
By the level of education, occupation, and wealth.
How was the third estate divided up?
500
Reign of Terror
What was the name of the event when people who opposed sans-culottes were killed?
500
Danton
Who was a minister of justice and established the first French Republic and was a big influence on the Jacobins.
500
Peasants making payments for the use of village facilities. Nobles being able to control Peasants' lands.
What is an example of feudalism in the third estate?
500
Treaty of Paris
Which treaty was signed in 1973 that recognized the independence of the American colonies?
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