Vocabulary
Places
People
Events
The French Revolution
100
legislature
What is lawmaking body?
100
What place did the colonists began heckling British soldiers and throwing stones at them?
Boston
100
Who Said this "My children, will you be free? Will you make the effort to recover from the hated Spaniards the lands stolen from your forefathers 300 years ago?"
Miguel Hidalgo
100
Some soldiers fired into the crowd, killing several colonists. What event was this?
Boston Massacre
100
What was the Third Etate
It demanded that each person at the meeting have only one vote.
200
massacre
What is an event that causes the death of unresisting or helpless people?
200
What place had the first spark of revolt did not appear in Spanish colony?
Haiti
200
In Chile, who organized an army through the rugged mountians?
Bernardo O'Higgins
200
They threw the tea overboard, case by case. What event was this?
Boston Tea Party
200
What was a group of advisers to the king
Estates-General
300
monarchy
What is an government in which a king, queen, or emperor has supreme power, was on the edge of collaspe?
300
What place did King Louis began gathering troops near the meeting?
Paris
300
Who became king in 1774 and was a weak ruler?
Louis XVI
300
There was bitter fighting in every colony. One key victory came in 1777, when the Americans won this event in New York?
Battle of Saratoga
300
When the king refused to grant this demand, members of the Third Estate formed into a group called what?
National Assembly
400
textile
What is a cloth that is either woven or knitted?
400
In 1807 Fulton sailed a steamboat up what river?
Hudson River
400
When the French Revolution began, who was a young officer in the army?
Napoeon Bonaparte
400
What event would last five years long?
American Revolution
400
In August 1789, the National Assembly adopted what?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of Citizen
500
Tenement
What is crowded slum aparments?
500
What place did many of Edison's inventions originate from?
Menlo Park
500
Who improved the steam engine so that it could power large machines?
James Watt
500
Napoleon was finally defeated by Britain and the European allie at what event?
Battle of Waterloo
500
Napoleon's goal was to what?
Establish his own empire
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