People
Things
Concepts
Events
100

enlightenment thinker who wrote about natural rights

John Locke

100

France's 3 estates

clergy, nobility, commoners

100

a form of rule where one person holds all the power

absolutism

100

period that introduced new political and social ideas

Age of Enlightenment

200
king of France at the time of the revolutions

Louis XVI

200

America's founding document

Declaration of Independence

200

a king/ queen whose role serves as a figurehead

constitutional monarch

200

a raid on the French monarchy's symbol of oppression

Storming of Bastille

300

Austrian-born queen of France

Marie Antoinette

300

a document that outlines how government works

constitution

300

the colonists' and Haitians' goal

independence

300

the 3rd estate's agreement to form a new government

Tennis Court Oath

400

his rise to power ended the French Revolution

Napoleon Bonaparte

400

the preferred method of execution by the French

guillotine
400
formation of a common identity and supporting its interests

nationalism

400

creates debt for Great Britain that led to taxation

7 Years war

500

a radical journalist killed in his bathtub

Jean-Paul Marat

500

the goals/ themes of France's revolution

liberty, equality, fraternity

500

the Republicans' tactic to combat opposing ideas

fear/ Committee on Public Safety

500
the colonists' collective protest against taxation

Boston Tea Party

600

the last death of the Reign of Terror

Maximilien Robespierre

600

a burden placed on the colonists and 3rd estate

taxes

600

accomplished in the 1st phase of the Haitian revolution

emancipation/ freeing the enslaved population

600

a period when 40,000 French citizens were executed

Reign of Terror

700

an African-born slave who led revolts in Haiti

Toussaint L'Ouverture

700

the colonists' mantra

taxation without representation is tyranny

700

enables Napoleon to seize control of France's government

military

700

referred to as the 'shot heard round the world'

Lexington & Concord