Revolutions Flash Cards--Unit Test

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Causes of the American Revolution

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Unfair taxation without representation, frustration with British control, and Enlightenment ideas of liberty.

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Key Groups in the American Revolution

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Patriots, Loyalists, and Sons of Liberty.

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Important Events of the American Revolution

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Boston Tea Party (1773), Declaration of Independence (1776), Battle of Yorktown (1781).

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Outcome of the American Revolution

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The United States gained independence, established a new democratic government, and signed the Treaty of Paris in 1783.

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Causes of the French Revolution

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Financial crisis, inequality between the three Estates, inspired by American Revolution and Enlightenment ideas.

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First Estate

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Clergy

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Second Estate

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Nobility

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Third Estate

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Commoners (peasants, bourgeoisie)

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Jacobins

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Radical revolutionary group, led by Robespierre

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Storming of the Bastille (1789)

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Symbolic start of the French Revolution