English Civil War
The primary cause of the English Civil War.
What is conflict between the King and Parliament over who should have power?
The three natural rights that John Locke argued all human beings had. These three rights would go on to influence the writing of the U.S. Constitution and the Declaration of Independence.
What are the rights to life, liberty, and property?
This instrument for beheading became a symbol of the French Revolution.
What is the guillotine?
A long-lived Germanic empire with a misleading name that finally collapsed during the Napoleonic Wars.
What is the Holy Roman Empire?
What is the Rosetta Stone?
The fate of King Charles I that ended the English Civil War.
What is execution by beheading?
The three branches that Baron de Montesquieu argued government should be divided into. They are the three branches of the current U.S. government.
What are the legislative, executive, and judicial branches?
The French Revolution began when a mob stormed this prison fortress.
What is the Bastille?
The number of coalitions the European powers formed to fight France.
What is seven?
This French nobleman first fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution before working to create something similar for the French one.
Who is Lafayette?
A document passed by Parliament that expressed the rights of the English people and government.
What is the English Bill of Rights?
The idea that people make an unspoken agreement to lose some of their rights in exchange for being able to live in society.
What is the social contract theory?
The King of France assembled this advisory body, comprised of three groups, to help solve economic issues in the country; instead, they reformed into the new National Assembly.
What is the Estates General?
The battle where Napoleon faced his final defeat.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This revolution was the largest and most successful slave rebellion in the Americas.
What is the Haitian Revolution?
This military commander, who fought on the side of parliament in the English Civil War, later forced parliament to declare him 'Lord Protector' of England.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
The author of The Prince, a book that argues a leader should maintain order through any means necessary.
Who is Niccolo Machiavelli?
The man who headed the Committee of Public Safety and pushed for the mass execution of counterrevolutionaries during the Reign of Terror, only to be executed himself.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The governing body of the French Republic that Napoleon overthrew.
What is the Directory?
This revolutionary led rebellions in multiple Latin American countries before trying to unify them under one government. Today there is a country in South America named after him.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
The peaceful transition of power from King James II to Queen Mary and King William
What is the Glorious Revolution?
This early feminist thinker wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, arguing that educated women could participate equally with men.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The King and Queen of France who were unable to stop (and were ultimately beheaded during) the revolution.
Who are Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?
Josephine Bonaparte.
This French journalist wrote many sensationalist news articles to push for more radicalism in the Revolution. He was ultimately assassinated by Charlotte Corday while in his bathtub.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?