Revolutionary Causes
This social class system in France was one of the major causes of the French Revolution.
What is the Estates System?
This 1776 document officially separated the American colonies from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This form of government was inspired by both the U.S. and French Revolutions.
What is a republic?
This was the tax burden that unfairly targeted the Third Estate.
What is the taille or general taxation?
This 1789 event marked the start of the French Revolution.
What is the storming of batille?
The French Revolution promoted this idea that people should rule themselves.
What is self-determination?
One major cause of the American Revolution was the British policy of taxing the colonies without this.
What is “taxation without representation”?
The American Revolution ended with this treaty in 1783.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
Name one major political document influenced by Enlightenment ideas and the U.S. Revolution.
What is the U.S. Constitution or the Bill of Rights?
Enlightenment thinker John Locke believed people had natural rights to these three things.
What are life, liberty, and property?
This radical French political group pushed the Revolution into the Reign of Terror.
What are the Jacobins?
One key difference between the American and French Revolutions was that the French Revolution became this.
What is violent or radical?
This financial crisis pushed France into revolution by severely draining its treasury.
What is France’s debt from war spending, especially the American Revolution?
After the fall of the French monarchy, this man rose to power and declared himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
The Haitian Revolution was inspired by these two earlier revolutions.
What are the American and French Revolutions?