The French Revolution
This 1789 event symbolized the beginning of the French Revolution.
What is the storming of The Bastille?
This legal document established equality before the law and influenced legal systems worldwide.
What is The Napoleonic Code?
This belief argued that Americans had a duty to spread their culture and democracy.
What is The Manifest Destiny?
This device allowed scientists to observe tiny living organisms for the first time.
What is the microscope?
The success of the American Revolution inspired people in this European country to revolt in 1789.
What is France?
This estate paid most of the taxes but had little political power.
What is The Third Estate?
This nephew of Napoleon became President and Emperor of France in 1848?
Who is Napoleon III?
This policy warned European nations not to interfere in the Americas.
What is The Monroe Doctrine?
This astronomer created this idea stated that the Sun, not the Earth, is at the center of the solar system.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus and what is the heliocentric theory?
Inspired by the American example, this Caribbean island had a major slave revolt and became independent in 1804.
What is Haiti?
This period saw mass executions using the guillotine.
What was The Terror?
This disastrous 1812 invasion weakened Napoleon’s army.
What is the invasion of Russia?
This policy stated that the U.S. had the right to intervene in Latin American countries.
What is The Roosevelt Corollary?
This scientist formulated the laws of motion and universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This Latin American revolutionary was influenced by the ideals of liberty and equality from the U.S. Revolution.
Who was Simon Bolivar?
This French king was executed during the Revolution.
Who is King Louis XVI?
This 1815 battle ended Napoleon’s rule for good.
What is The Battle of Waterloo?
The explosion of this ship helped push the U.S. into war with Spain.
What is the USS Maine?
This astronomer discovered that planets move in elliptical orbits.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
This 1789 document guaranteed freedoms such as speech, religion, and press.
What is The Bill of Rights?
This document declared natural rights such as liberty and equality.
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This failed policy aimed to weaken Britain by cutting off European trade.
What is The Continental System?
This amendment limited Cuba’s independence and allowed U.S. intervention.
What is The Platt Amendment?
This scientist discovered the circulation of blood, improving medical knowledge.
Who is William Harvey?
Revolutionary ideals encouraged trade and commerce based on free-market principles instead of this restrictive system.
What is mercantilism?