American Revolution
This country lost 13 colonies after the American Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
The revolution started in this European country.
What is France?
Haiti was a colony of this European country before its revolution.
What is France?
These revolutions were fought to gain freedom from this European empire.
What is Spain?
The Industrial Revolution began in this country.
What is Great Britain?
This 1776 document, primarily written by Thomas Jefferson, declared the colonies independent.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
The people were angry because they had to pay these, while the rich did not.
What are taxes?
This revolution was led mostly by this group of people.
Who are formerly enslaved people?
This man helped lead independence movements in Venezuela and Colombia.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
This invention helped power factories and trains.
What is a steam engine?
This event in 1773, where colonists dumped tea into a harbor, was a protest against British taxes.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This monarch was executed during the French Revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI (the sixteenth)?
This man helped lead the fight for Haiti’s freedom from slavery.
Who is Toussaint Louverture?
This country, the largest in South America, gained independence from Portugal.
What is Brazil?
During the Industrial Revolution, many people moved from farms to these places.
What are cities?
This 1781 battle effectively ended the Revolutionary War with an American victory.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This angry mob stormed a prison called the Bastille to protest the king.
What is the storming of the Bastille?
After the revolution, Haiti became the first country to ban this system.
What is Slavery?
Many Latin American leaders were inspired by this earlier revolution in the U.S.
What is the American Revolution?
The Industrial Revolution made it easier and faster to make these.
What are goods or products?
This Enlightenment thinker’s ideas about natural rights inspired the American Revolution.
Who is John Locke?
This man took control of France after the revolution and became emperor.
Who is Napolean Bonaparte?
Haiti became the first independent nation in this part of the world, led by former slaves.
What is the Caribbean?
This Catholic priest helped start Mexico’s fight for independence.
Who is Miguel Huidago?
This new building was used to make large amounts of goods with machines.
What is a factory?