Execution of a King
The National Convention decided that France would no longer be ruled by a/an _____________.
King
The ______________ Estate included more than 95% of the French people.
Third Estate.
The 13 American colonies were part of the _______________ Empire.
British Empire.
When did the Americans adopt the Declaration of Independence?
The Americans adopted the Declaration of Independence on July 4, 1776.
The ______ Estate was the only one that paid taxes.
Third Estate
Louis XVI was found guilty of ______________.
Treason
France's _____________ was made up of representatives from each Estate.
Esates-General
Many colonists refused to ______________.
Pay taxes.
* War debts
*Rising prices of goods.
*Unemployment.
In the Estates-General, each Estate got ____________.
One vote.
The job of the Committee of Public Safety was to __________.
* Defend France from foreign threats.
*Defend France from threats at home.
* Protect the revolution.
France was having money trouble because ______________.
* The government had huge war debts to pay.
*Prices of goods were rising.
*Many people were out of work.
The ____________ voted to raise an army and defend the colonies against Britain.
Second Continental Congress.
What was the Guillotine?
The guillotine was a machine that chopped a person's head off with a huge blade.
_________ was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety.
Maximilien Robespierre
During the Reign of Terror, more than _________________ people were killed.
30,000 people.
The ______________ Estate voted to rename itself the National Assembly.
Third Estate.
American leaders liked the ideas of Enlightenment thinker_____________.
John Locke
_____________ wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson.
The ____________'s job was to defend France from foreign threats and from threats at home.
Committee of Public Safety.
Maximilien Robespierre was the leader of the ____________.
Committee of Public Safety.
National Assembly members made a famous oath called the _______________.
Tennis Court Oath.
The ___________ included a list of complaints about the king.
Declaration of Independence.
Locke said that citizens have a right to overthrow their government if _________________.
The government does not protect its citizens rights.
In what year did Napoleon Bonaparte take control of France?
Napoleon took control of France in 1799.