American & French Revolutions

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  1. 4. Rights — Basic rights all people are born with, such as life, liberty, and property.
  2. 5. Court Oath — Promise by the Third Estate to create a new constitution.
  3. 6. Washington — Commander of the Continental Army and first U.S. president.
  4. 7. Acts — Punishments imposed on Massachusetts after the Boston Tea Party.
  5. 9. Act — British law taxing printed materials in the colonies, increasing colonial anger.
  6. 11. of Paris — Agreement officially ending the American Revolution.
  7. 12. of Lexington and Concord — The first military battles of the American Revolution.
  8. 16. of Rights — The first ten amendments protecting individual freedoms.
  9. 17. of the Governed — The principle that people give government its power.
  10. 20. Robespierre — Radical leader who directed the Reign of Terror.
  11. 22. of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen — Document declaring liberty and equality for French citizens.
  12. 25. of Terror — Period of mass executions led by radical revolutionaries.
  13. 27. Jefferson — Primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
  14. 29. XVI — French king executed during the Revolution.
  15. 30. of Independence — Document declaring the colonies independent and affirming natural rights.
  16. 32. — Meeting of France’s three estates to address financial crisis.
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  1. 1. Estate — Commoners who paid most taxes and had little political power.
  2. 2. — An intellectual movement of the 1600s–1700s emphasizing reason, liberty, equality, and natural rights.
  3. 3. of the Bastille — Paris mob attacked a prison symbolizing royal tyranny.
  4. 8. Estate — The clergy of France who paid few taxes.
  5. 9. Estate — The nobility of France who held special privileges.
  6. 10. — British economic system that controlled colonial trade for the benefit of the mother country.
  7. 13. Locke — Enlightenment thinker who argued government exists to protect natural rights and can be overthrown if it fails.
  8. 14. Contract — The idea that government gains authority from the consent of the governed.
  9. 15. Tea Party — Colonial protest against British tea taxes in which tea was dumped into Boston Harbor.
  10. 18. Without Representation — Colonial complaint that Britain taxed them without allowing colonial representatives in Parliament.
  11. 19. Antoinette — Queen of France executed during the Revolution.
  12. 21. — A government where citizens elect representatives to govern.
  13. 23. — Execution device used widely during the Reign of Terror.
  14. 24. of Powers — Dividing government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
  15. 26. Bonaparte — Military leader who seized power and ruled France as emperor.
  16. 28. Wars — Series of wars spreading revolutionary ideas across Europe.
  17. 31. System — France’s rigid social class structure dividing society into three estates.