American Revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These are the groups that composed the first estate and the second estate.
Who are the clergy and who are the nobles?
This is the name of the leader who seized control of France in a Coup d'etat in 1799 and crowned himself emperor in 1804.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This is what is meant by the term "Latin America"
What is the area of North and South America that speak Spanish or Portuguese?
Who are enslaved people?
This is the name of the main author of the declaration of independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This was a system in France that divided the population into three estates as well as a description of the what the third estate was.
What is the estates system? What are the common people?
This is the name of the law code created by Napoleon that utilized some of the ideas and principles of the Revolution but rejected others to maintain his power.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This is the name of the man whose famous Grito de Dolores began the Mexican War of Independence.
Who is Miguel Hidalgo?
This is the name of the main leader of the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
This is the name for the first ten amendments of the US Constitution that detail our rights and freedoms.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This is the document created by the National Assembly that enshrined the ideas of liberty, equality, and brotherhood as well as created a Constitutional Monarchy in France (though that was short-lived).
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This is one of the parts of the Napoleonic Code that saved the French Revolution as well as well as one of the parts of the Napoleonic Code that rejected the French Revolution.
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This is the definition of peninsulares, creoles, and mestizos.
Toussaint was born into slavery and was taught to read by his slavemaster. He eventually gained his freedom and then owned slaves himself. When the revolution started, he turned against slavery and led the slave army against the French.
This is the name for the first constitution of the United States and also the reason why it failed.
What is the Articles of Confederation that failed because of a weak national government?
Who were the Jacobins? Who was Maximilien Robespierre? What is that they feared counterrevolutionaries?
After invading Russia, Napoleon was eventually defeated and was exiled to the island of Elba. Explain what happened after that (no need to say this as a question)
Napoleon came out of exile and took over again for the glorious hundred days, but eventually was defeated at the Battle of Waterloo, and this time was exiled to St.Helena where he died.
These two leaders led the revolutions in South America. One in the North part of South America and one in the South Part of South America.
This is the explanation of why the Haitian Revolutionaries joined the French to fight the British and Spanish, and then what happened when Napoleon took over France.
What is they joined the French revolutionaries because the Jacobins offered them freedom, and Napoleon tried to reintroduce slavery and killed Toussaint L'Ouverture.
Some say the American Revolution was "not that revolutionary" when compared to the other revolutions on this list. Why might they say this? (no need to ask as a question)
This is a description of the French Revolution from the beginning to the rise of Napoleon, touching on at least 5 key events of the French Revolution
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Explain the entire story of Napoleon from his beginnings, to him taking over France, to what he changed about France, to his fall.
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Explain at least two differences and two similarities between the Mexican War of Independence and the wars for independence in South America. (One of these must involve that class pyramid)
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legacy of colonialism
etc.