Napoleon
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100
After doing poorly in Saint Domingue, Napoleon sold this territory to the United States.
What is Louisiana?
100
Known for his laws of motion and the identification of gravity.
Who is Sir Isaac Newton?
100
King George (and parliament) believed the colonists should have to pay for most of this conflict so they created a series of taxes to pay the debts.
What is the French & Indian War?
100
This estate is made of 97% of the entire French population. Included doctors, lawyers, merchants, peasants,etc.
What is the Third Estate?
100
"We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness."
Who is John Locke? What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
The Russians decided to do this act to portions of Moscow so Napoleon and his troops could not gather supplies for their journey home.
What is burn?
200
known for his work creating the scientific method.
Who is Rene Descartes? OR Francis Bacon?
200
REVIEW: driven by individuals seeking profit.
What is capitalism?
200
This man was the leader of the radical faction during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
200
"Article 2- The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression."
Who is John Locke? What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen (DOROMAC) ?
300
Most important voice at the Congress of Vienna- pushed for a return of monarchies in Europe.
Who is Prince Metternich?
300
Known for proving the Heliocentric Solar System.
What is Galileo Galilei?
300
REVIEW: According to this economic system, there is a fixed amount of wealth in the world.
What is Mercantilism?
300
This governing body was quickly replaced by Napoleon because they were too weak to govern effectively.
What is the directory?
300
Amendment I - "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances."
Who is Voltaire? What is the US Bill of Rights?
400
This meeting decided what to do with Napoleon's Empire after his exile.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
400
Known for hypothesizing the Heliocentric Solar System.
Who is Nicholas Copernicus?
400
This second series of taxes exhibited on the colonists was intended to help pay for the French and Indian War.
What are the Townshend Acts?
400
After the third estate was locked out of the meeting of the Estates General, they found a new meeting place and declared themselves this legislative body.
What is the National Assembly?
400
"Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau? What is the Declaration of Independence?
500
Blocked trade between England and the rest of Europe. Economic warfare designed to weaken England.
What is the Continental System?
500
credited with the title "Father of Modern Science."
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
Delegates met at the Constitutional Convention to fix the Articles of Confederation, instead they created the US Constitution and this type of government for the United States.
What is a Federal System?
500
Article 11 - "The free communication of ideas and opinions is one of the most precious of the rights of man. Every citizen may, accordingly, speak, write, and print with freedom, but shall be responsible for such abuses of this freedom as shall be defined by law." **DOUBLE POINTS FOR PHILOSOPHER & DOCUMENT!
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen? Who is Voltaire?
500
“Were the executive power not to have a right of restraining the encroachments of the legislative body, the latter would become despotic; for as it might arrogate to itself what authority it pleased, it would soon destroy all the other powers.”
Who is Baron de Montesquieu? What is the US Constitution?
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