Chapters 1-4
The horrifying secret William heard while visiting the French was _____.
Philip was planning to massacre Protestants.
What did princess Nzinga do when her enemy tried to make her sit on the floor?
she used a servant as a human chair.
When Napoleon needed money, he sold the _____________ to the United States for fifteen million dollars.
Louisiana Territory
____________________ wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
On July 14th, 1789, the people of Paris stormed the _____________________ to find gunpowder.
Bastille
Spanish adventurers who sailed to South America were known as...?
Conquistadors
Oliver Cromwell was given the title ____________________ of England.
Lord Protector
________________________ was the commander of the British fleet when Napoleon tried to invade Great Britain.
Horatio Nelson
What is Bill of Rights?
It is a list of powers that the government can never use against the people of the United States. such as to assemble in public, to keep weapons, to worship God, and speak their opinions
What did Robespierre do to anyone he thought was disloyal to the new Republic?
He killed them
What is in my pocket?
Probably a phone, I don't know.
Catholic missionaries known as _________________ came to Japan to spread Christianity, while the Japanese were mostly what religion?
Jesuits, Buddhists
What country did Napoleon invade next after his victory over the Austrians?
Egypt
In 1781, the British Commander, Lord Cornwallis, surrendered at ____________.
Yorktown
_________ is today known as the Father of New France.
Samuel Champlain
The _______were a group of Christians who wanted to remove all Catholic influences from the Anglican church.
Puritans
New Amsterdam was renamed ______________________ by the English.
New York
Under Horatio Nelson's command, England defeated the French at the Battle of ___________________.
Trafalger
Why did Parliament decide to pass laws requiring the colonists to pay taxes?
They had spent thousands of pounds defending the American colonies during the Seven Years' War
When delegates came to Versailles to discuss new taxes, the Third Estate renamed the meeting the ___________________________.
National Assembly
By the time Charles V was nineteen, he had inherited the thrones of _____________.
Germany, Spain, Netherlands
What Indian emperor was named Conqueror of the World
Aurangzeb
Who chose Napoleon to lead an attack on Austria?
the five man committee that ruled France called the Directory.
When British soldiers fired into a crowd and killed five colonists, the colony leaders named it the ____________________.
Boston Massacre
Members of this meeting took an oath called the ________________________________, swearing to make a new Constitution.
Tennis Court Oath