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He was executed on January 21st, 1793.
Who is King Louis XVI of France?
This is an ecomonic system in which the few own wealth-controlling enterprises, and the many control only their labor.
What is Capitalism?
These fenced off lands that used to be common lands in England.
What are enclosures?
It is the House of Parliament composed of the Bishops and Nobles.
What is the House of Lords?
He was known as the Patriot King of England and was respected for his virtue.
Who is King George III?
This governmental system is the rule of the wealthy only.
What is an oligarchy?
These are where rural peasants were forced due to the enclosures.
What are cities?
It is the House of Parliament composed of the representatives of the people/citizens.
What is the House of Commons?
He wrote a book called Reflections on the Revolution in France.
Who is Edmund Burke?
These are the compensations workers are given for their work.
What are wages?
These industrial buildings are where many peasants attempted to find employment for low wages.
What are factories?
The English political party that favors the House of Commons and diminishing the power of the King.
Who are the Whigs?
He sought to rule as a monarch and opposed Parliament often.
Who is King George III of England?
They responded to the Industrial Revolution with strikes and violence and occasional destruction of the machinery.
Who are the workers and poor?
An invention that replaced the horse in order to make factories more widespread.
What is the steam engine?
The English political party that supported royal power, though not absolute monarchy.
Who are the Tories?
He taught that rights come from political and religious institutions, not from nature.
Who is Edmund Burke?
This capitalist doctrine states that each person should be allowed to follow their own economic interests, without any governmental control on prices and wages.
What is laissez-faire?
This is the rapid development of in Britain, brought about by the introduction of machinery.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
This law of the land is not a set of written documents but a set of traditions and procedures that have arisen over centuries of practicing government.
What is the British Constitution?