Unit 7 Review

What was an effect of the Enlightenment on governments?

• Governments became more absolutist in nature

• Governments became more democratic-republican in nature

• People lost the right to vote

• People became more suspicious of their governments

What are Estates?

• Social classes in pre-revolutionary France

• Large plots of land where lords lived

• Land that the King gave out to his friends

• A series of extravagant parties the King threw

Why did the 3rd Estate form the National Assembly?

• The 3rd Estate felt that the only way they could get the King on their side was to create an Assembly

• The King asked them to

• The storming of the Bastille

• They felt that the 1st and 2nd estate had broken the social contract

The American and French Revolutions stopped many Latin American Revolts

• True

• False

What document officially broke America free from Britain?

• Declaration of Independence

• The US Constitution

• The US Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of the Rights of Man

The Estates General was a meeting of the Three Estates that happened every 2 years

• True

• False

Maximilien Robespierre is most known for:

• Creating a more unified France

• Using violence against his opponents

• Using peace to get his way

• His philosophical ideas

Many Latin American Revolutions were started by _________ because they resented the political and social structure in the colonies

• Peninsulares

• Enslaved peoples

• Creoles

• Indigenous peoples

The Congress of Vienna was...

• A meeting to reinstate a monarchy in France

• A meeting to help Napoleon succeed in his goals

• A meeting of revolutionaries all over Europe

• A meeting to try and restore Europe after the Napoleonic Wars

What country was able to fight and win its independence from the French?

• Peru

• Haiti

• Ecuador

• Mexico