Key Figures
This general led the Continental Army during the American Revolution and became the first president of the United States.
Who is George Washington?
This British tax on paper goods led to widespread protests and was one of the causes of the American Revolution.
What is the Stamp Act?
This 1775 battle marked the first military engagements of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This document, written in 1776, formally declared the American colonies’ independence from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This French revolutionary leader was a key figure during the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
French society division?
What are the 3 estates
This 1781 battle was the final major conflict of the American Revolution, leading to British surrender.
What is the Battle of Yorktown?
This French document, adopted in 1789, proclaimed that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.”
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
This period of mass executions during the French Revolution was known for its use of the guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This French king was executed during the French Revolution in 1793.
Who is Louis XVI?
This event in 1773, where American colonists protested against British taxes by dumping tea into a harbor, helped spark the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
The storming of this prison on July 14, 1789, became a symbol of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
This slogan of the French Revolution emphasized the values of liberty, equality, and fraternity.
What is "Liberté, égalité, fraternité"?
This 1787 document established the system of government for the newly independent United States.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
Which King supported the Americans in the American Revolution
French King
What financial crisis in France, caused by war debt and lavish spending, helped trigger the French Revolution?
What is the financial collapse due to wars, including the American Revolution, poor harvest?
This American victory in 1777 convinced France to join the war against Britain.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?
This American Enlightenment figure wrote Common Sense, advocating for independence from Britain.
Who is Thomas Paine?
What did Napoleon establish in 1804 that reformed the French legal system and became influential across Europe?
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This leader emerged after the French Revolution and declared himself Emperor of France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This Enlightenment thinker, whose ideas about social contracts and natural rights, heavily influenced both the American and French Revolutions.
Who is John Locke?
Napoleon faced a major defeat in 1815 at this battle, marking the end of his reign.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
This Enlightenment philosopher’s ideas about the separation of powers influenced both the American and French Revolutions.
Who is Montesquieu?
What did the Monarchs of Europe fear in light of the French revolution?
What is revolution spreading to their countries