American Revolution
The colonists who supported independence from Britain were often called these.
What is Patriots?
The social group that made up most commoners
What is the Third Estate?
Napoleon’s title after he took power in France in 1804.
Who is the Emperor of the French?
The machine used for many executions during the Terror.
What is the guillotine?
What is the capital city of Ontario
What is Toronto?
The document that listed colonial complaints against King George III.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Revolutionaries attacked this Paris prison-fortress because it symbolized the king’s power.
What is the storming of the Batile?
Napoleon created this set of laws that spread ideas like equality before the law across Europe.
What is the Napoleonic code?
The key committee that led the Reign of Terror.
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
The name of Canada’s national law-making building/area in Ottawa.
What is Parliament (or Parliament Hill)?
The first major battle of the Revolution, fought in Massachusetts in April 1775. The first major battle of the Revolution, fought in Massachusetts in April 1775.
What are Lexington and Concord?
The famous document declaring “liberty, equality, fraternity” ideals in 1789.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Napoleon’s attempt to weaken Britain by blocking trade with it.
What is the Continental System?
The leader most associated with the Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The capital of Nova scotia
What is Halifax?
The 1783 treaty that officially ended the American Revolution.
What is the Treaty of Paris (1783)?
The women’s march that brought the king and queen from Versailles to Paris (1789).
What is the Women’s March on Versailles?
The disastrous 1812 campaign where Napoleon invaded this country
What is Russia?
The term for someone executed or punished because they were seen as “against the Revolution.”
What is a counterrevolutionary (or suspect/enemy of the revolution)?
The prime minister of Canada
What is Mark Carney
This 1781 victory forced British General Cornwallis to surrender and basically ended major fighting.
What is the battle of Yorktown?
The political group known for being radical and leading the Revolution later on.
Who are the Jacobins?
The 1815 battle where Napoleon was finally defeated.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This 1793 law made it easier to arrest people as “enemies of the Revolution,” even with little evidence.
What is the Law of Suspects?
This railway was built to connect Canada from east to west and helped bring British Columbia into Confederation.
What is the Canadian Pacific Railway (CPR)?