ACE History: Year 8-FE Revision

Who led the Americans during the Battle of Yorktown?

• Donald Trump

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• General Cornwallis

Why were many Americans unhappy about being ruled by the British?

• Acts were passed to close the American's harbor

• British prevented courts from bringing American officials to trial.

• British opened fire at American protesters who gathered to stand against increased in taxes

• Americans were not allowed to send representatives to parliament

The American's Bill of rights guaranteed the following rights...

• Freedom of religion

• Freedom of press, speech and assembly

• the right to freedom, property and security

• the right to keep and bear firearms

(a)   is an elected group of politicians responsible for making laws in the USA.

In France, if King Louis XVI wanted to arrest someone, all he had to do was...

• sign and send a sealed letter.

• demand the person stand before the King for a crime they did not commit

• personally seized the person

• to pay bribes to the police and the judge for an unfair trial.

Peasants' lives in France in the 1780s....

• rents are high and they have to do unpaid work

• pay taxes to the government and the church

• need to buy their way out of the military service

• Bread was the only cheap food they can afford

The guillotine is...

• an execution device

• a torture device

• a weapon for war

• a tool for building

Changes made by the Revolution in France were...

• slave trade abolished

• parliament rather than the king now makes the laws.

• power of the king was limited under the control of the parliament

• divorce is now illegal

____________ believed that being a Catholic made you a traitor, and created a group called 'The Protestant Association.'

• Feargus O Connor

• Lord George Gordon

• Henry Hunt

• William Lovett

The Riot Act was...

• an action of riot caused by an uncontrollable crowd

• a drama that retells the story of the Gordon Riot

• a warning read out loud before the military could act.

• a fake riot, done for the sole purpose of causing the military to act.