Unit 2 - Age of Revolutions Review

The policy or practice of acquiring full or partial political control over another country, occupying it with settlers, and exploiting it economically.

• Colonialism

• Federal System

• Reign of Terror

• The Intolerable Acts

A European world war over territorial control that Great Britain helped win. It left Great Britain with huge debt that it hoped to pay off by taxing its colonies more.

• The Seven Years' War

• The French Revolutionary Wars

• The American Revolution

• The Napoleonic Wars

A series of laws created by Great Britain in order to punish the Thirteen American Colonies for the Boston Tea Party protest against increased taxes.

• The Intolerable Acts

• Common Sense

• The Haitian Revolution

• The Stamp Act

The division of French society into three separate classes.

First were priests and religious leaders. Second were the nobility. Third and lowest consisted of everyone else.

• French Estates

• Tennis Court Oath

• Bourgeoisie

• Marxism

A persuasive pamphlet written by Thomas Paine that argued for government to be separate from the rule of a monarch.

• The Declaration of Independence

• Common Sense

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• The Stamp Act

The new government of France that was formed by the French Third Estate. Marked the beginning of the French Revolution.

• The National Assembly

• The Reign of Terror

• French Estates

• Republic

The French government used extreme violence to stop internal instability after they had multiple defeats in the French Revolutionary Wars.

• Common Sense

• Reign of Terror

• The Napoleonic Wars

• Nationalism

Supported enlightened absolutism and the American Revolution, but his policies led to food shortages and political instability that would cause the French Revolution.

• King George III

• King Louis XVI

• Napoleon Bonaparte

• Miguel Hidalgo

The unique cultural identity of a people based on common language, religion, and national symbols.

• Nationalism

• Colonialism

• Republic

• The National Assembly

A successful anti-slavery and anti-colonial insurrection by self-liberated slaves against French colonial rule in Saint-Domingue.

• Haitian Revolution

• French Revolution

• Mexican War of Independence

• American Revolution