American Independence
The number of colonies in America
What is 13?
The year of the French Revolution
What is 1789?
Complete the sentence: The French Revolution changed the system of rule from an absolute monarchy into a (blank) monarchy.
What is constitutional monarchy?
Before becoming Emperor in 1804, Napoleon Bonaparte was a ______
What is a military general?
Its raining cats and dogs
It’s raining hard
The document that marked American freedom from Britain in 1776
What is the Declaration of Independence?
when one person rules a country with no limit or restriction.
What is an absolute monarchy?
The two types of political groups of the Legislative Assembly
What are the Girondins and the Jacobins?
What is Waterloo?
I feel under the weather
I feel sick
The first President of the United States
Who is George Washington?
The new political group established at the tennis courts by the Third Estate
What is the National Assembly?
To unite France under a republic *this* group was established and was responsible for executing Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
What is the National Convention?
The 3 principles of the French Republic
What are equality, liberty and fraternity?
Break a leg
Good luck
True or False: The Treaty of Versailles was signed in 1787
False, 1783
Name one reason the revolutionaries chose to attack the Bastille
1. prison for other revolutionaries
2. symbol of absolute monarchy
3. Place where monarchy stored weapons
Explain the dynamic of the Reign of Terror
Jacobins with the help of the sans-culottes arrested and killed their political rival group the Girondins because they only supported the richer, upper class people.
Definition - Concept that ultimate power in a state lies with its Citizens
What is popular sovereignty?
to walk on eggshells
To be very careful
Spanish - andar con pies de plomo
.Name 2 reasons why the American War of Independence started
*extra 100pts for every additional reason said*
1. 1763 Royal Proclamation
2. Increase in taxes
3. No representation in British government
4. Boston Massacre
5. American sense of identity and Enlightenment thought
Explain the dynamic between the 3 Estates at the Estate General
*why was the 3rd Estate upset and what they wanted to change*
What is: 3rd estate wanted to change the tax system because they were the only 1 paying taxes and they had unfair representation in government with 96% of people only getting 1 vote.
The year that Napoleon led his *coup d’etat* and the name of his first system of government he established
What is 1799 and the Consulate?
Name 3 Consequences of the French Revolution and the Napoleonic Empire
(+)abolition of feudalism, all men equal before the law, popular sovereignty and separation of powers, democratic freedoms, nationalism in France, the 3 principles of France, reforms for farmers and industrialization
(-) no rights for women and slaves, loss of principles during Reign of Terror and Napoleonic Empire, no end to economic crisis, revolutions without universal manhood suffrsge
To turn the tables
Turn the situation around
Spanish - dar la vuelta a la tortilla