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Vocab Cont.
The Enlightenment
The French Revolution
American Revolution
100
Poor farmers or farm workers.
What is Peasants?
100
A government with a king or queen as the ruler.
What is A Monarchy?
100
A time when thinkers and writers tried to solve problems by using reason.
What is The Enlightenment?
100
The reason for the French Revolution.
Because the peasants and middle class wanted a fairer society.
100
This was what the fighters for Great Britain in the American Revolution were called.
Who are the Redcoats?
200
A social class made up of skilled workers, professionals, business people, and wealthy farmers. They are not the highest class, but also not peasants.
What is Middle Class?
200
Killed as punishment.
What is Executed?
200
The ability that people have to think and to come up with good conclusions.
What is Reason?
200
This was the event that happened in 1789 which started the French Revolution.
What is Attacking the Bastille prison to free political prisoners and get weapons?
200
A complete change, especially in a government, often brought about by fighting or a war.
What is Revolution?
300
People in society who have titles and who are in a high societal standing.
What is Nobility?
300
To be found guilty in a court of law.
What is Convicted?
300
A year during the French Revolution when many people were executed for "disloyalty" to France.
What is Reign of Terror?
300
These were the years that the French Revolution lasted.
What is 1789-1793?
300
This is name of the event when American colonists threw tea into the Boston harbor to protest tax on tea.
What is The Boston Tea Party?
400
To reject the rules or laws of one's societies.
What is Rebel?
400
The idea that a monarch's right to rule comes from God.
What is Divine Right?
400
He explained the laws of gravity and motion.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
This is what the Bastille represented to the people of France.
What is the king's unjust power and the idea of his divine right to rule?
400
This is the event when Great Britain sent soldiers to the colonies to keep the peace, which angered the colonists. In Boston, the Colonists responded by throwing stones at the soldiers. The soldiers fired into the crows, killing five people.
What is The Boston Massacre?
500
The crime of betraying one's country.
What is Treason?
500
People put in jail for not agreeing with the government.
What are Political Prisoners?
500
This is the philosophy of Jean-Jacques Rousseau and other enlightenment philosophers.
What is "All people are created equal and there should be no nobility."
500
Who were the king and queen of France and what happened to them in 1793?
King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette. They were overthrown, convicted of treason, and executed with the Guillotine.
500
He wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?