Vive la Révolution!
Fires of Industry
Capital and Empire
Kings, Queens, and Emperors
Freedom Fighters
100

Before the French Revolution, this Estate (social class) paid zero taxes.

Second Estate (nobility)

100

The first industry during the Industrial Revolution.

Textiles

100

This philosopher described capitalism as the cause of class conflict and that it oppresses workers.

Karl Marx ("The Communist Manifesto")

100

This French monarch was executed in January 1793 for treason against the people. 

King Louis XVI 
100

The treatment of Haiti by European powers after the Haitian Revolution.

Rejection, forced to pay large debt as "reparations" for lost plantations and enslaved people.

200
Robespierre's explanation for the Reign of Terror.

Protect the French Revolution from its "enemies"

200

A "strike," its tactics, and its goal. 

A union (organized group of workers) agrees to shut down production to put pressure on capital-ownership to negotiate for better working conditions. 

200

This economic system values cooperation more than competition. 

Socialism

200

How Napoleon Bonaparte seized power of the French government.

Coup d'etat

200

The fate of Touissant L'Ouverture, the first leader of the Haitian Revolution.

Died in French prison after being captured by Napoleon. 

300

The prison break that marked the beginning of the end for France's Old Order.

Storming of the Bastille

300

Overcrowded city apartments, dirty streets, and polluted air were a result of this process. 

Urbanization

300

How a perfect society can be made according to utopian socialists.

If it is carefully planned and resources are shared. 

300

This monarch was shamed by the peasants for the high spending practices of the French nobility.

Marie Antoinette

300

The Haitian leader who defeated the French and expelled all slave-owners and white French colonists from the island. 

Jean-Jacques Dessalines

400

The promise of the National Assembly during the Tennis Court Oath.

Write a new constitution.

400

The (Three) Factors of Production

Coal, iron, and rivers/canals/water

400

Economic cause of the Great Indian Famines.

British imperial capitalist policies that forced Indians to grow cash crops instead of food.

400

A lack of authority figures and chaos in the political/military sphere creates this scenario where anyone can gain massive power.

Power vacuum

400

The first major victory against European imperialism by an African country. 

Battle of Adwa

500
Jean-Jacques Rousseau's theory of the "Social Contract."

If the government does not meet the needs of the people, the people have the right to overthrow their government. 

500

These increased farm productivity and drove urbanization. 

Enclosures

500

The way profits fuel capitalist economic expansion.

Profits are used to invest in buying more capital (property), which is used to gain more profit, creating a cycle of expansion. 

500

Emperor Meiji pursued these European economic and foreign policy practices during the Meiji Restoration.

Industrialization and imperialism/militarism. 

500

The "Maji Maji" from the Maji Maji Rebellion.

Holy water blessed by an Islamic priest to protect the Tanzanian rebels from German bullets.

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