A belief that God provides the support for absolute rule of a monarch
What is divine right to rule?
100
American slogan demonstrating their disgust of British taxes.
What is "no taxation without representation"?
100
French class that paid 90% of the taxes in France.
What is the Third Estate?
100
Inspired revolutions in Haiti and Latin America.
What are the American and French Revolutions?
100
The birthplace of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Great Britain?
200
English king who fought with Parliament over taxes and led the Cavalier army in the English Civil War, but was executed with his loss.
Who is Charles I?
200
Tax on playing cards, dice, wills, and licenses that outraged the colonists.
What is the Stamp Act?
200
The National Assembly gathered to insist they would not leave Versailles until they had written a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
200
In both Haiti and Latin America, this group of landowners took advantage of the wars in Europe and their unhappiness with mercantilism to gain their independence.
Who are Creoles?
200
The first industry that used machines to create products for sale on a mass scale and led to need for cotton.
What is textiles?
300
Puritan general who led the Roundhead army in the English Civil War, created a commonwealth government, but ruled as dictator.
Who is Oliver Cromwell?
300
War that led to British empire in North America but an empty treasury.
What is the French and American War?
300
Radicals took over the French Revolution and presided over this period executing approximately 40,000 people by the guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
300
Leader of the Haitian Revolution who was an able leader but tricked by the French dying in a French prison.
Who is Touissant L'Overture?
300
Created an inexpensive and efficient method of cleaning cotton for greater production sparking an explosion in industry in Great Britain and New England.
Who is Eli Whitney?
400
William and Mary were invited by Parliament to take the throne of England when Mary's father, Charles II, tried to return to absolute rule.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
400
First battle of the American Revolution
What is Lexington and Concord?
400
Successful military general who created a stable law code and crowned himself emperor.
Who is Napoleon?
400
The "Liberator of South America" and a believer in a republican form of government.
Who is Simon Bolivar?
400
A negative effect of the industrial revolution using this form of labor paying pennies a day for hard work from dawn to dusk.
What is child labor?
500
William and Mary signed this document providing for free choice in religion, freedom to petition the king, right to bail, and jury trial.
What are the English Bill of Rights?
500
General Cornwallis lost this battle when trapped by sea and by Washington's troops by land.
What is Yorktown?
500
This geographic factor contributed to Napoleon's disastrous attempt to invade and defeat Russia.
What is the bitter cold climate and the Russian scorched earth policy.
500
Napoleon needed funds for his European wars and sold this territory to the US.
What is the Louisiana Territory?
500
Organized resistance to business leaders who owned factories and the way they treated workers.