American Revolution
King George III & Parliament passed new taxes that angered the American colonist.
What is the Sugar and Stamp Act?
Monarch : one ruler with absolute power. First Estate Clergy : made up 1% of the population. Second Estate Nobility : made up 1% of the population. Third Estate : Common People : made up 98% of the population.
What is The Estate System?
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
A military takeover of the government.
What is a coup d' etat?
The key revolutionary leader during the Haitian Revolution.
Who is Toussaint L'Ouverture?
Colonist protested that their rights were being violated and wanted a say in their government.
What is no taxation without representation?
Unfair Estate System, Enlightenment Ideas, Hard Times, Money and Weak Leadership.
What are the causes of the French Revolution?
Around 300,000 people were arrested and 100,000 killed between the revolution and the wars. At least 17,000 by guillotine.
What is the "Reign of Terror"?
Strong leadership, Military Genius and French Nationalism.
How did Napoleon rise to power?
The European empire that colonized and controlled the majority of Latin America between 1492 and 1800.
What is the Spanish Empire?
Violent clashes and protest that increased tensions between the British and American colonist.
What is The Boston Massacre and The Boston Tea Party?
July 14, 1789 people stormed the Bastille Prison to get guns and ammo.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
Led the Committee of Public Safety and ruled during the "Reign of Terror".
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
A 23 year period of recurrent conflict from 1792 to 1815.
What are the Napoleonic Wars?
The social structure of the colonies that was based on race within Latin America.
What is the "Casta System"?
Influenced the Constitution and Bill of Rights.
What is Enlightenment ideas?
Emphasized the rights of people. Influenced by Enlightenment philosophers like Rousseau, Voltaire, and Locke. Influenced by the American Declaration of Independence.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette.
Who were the King and Queen of France?
In 1814 European monarchs met and signed a peace treaty. This reinforced absolute monarchies (including France).
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Two key revolutionary leaders during the Revolutions in Latin America.
Who is Bolivar and Jose de San Martin?
What is the legacy of the American Revolution?
The type of government established after the new Constitution.
What is a constitutional monarchy?
The device that was responsible of executing 17,000 people during the "Reign of Terror".
What is the Guillotine?
Napoleon's last attempt to regain control of France that was unsuccessful.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
It was the only successful revolution led by enslaved people.
What is the Haitian Revolution?