3. Revolutions Review

What is a revolution?

• a sweeping (major) change in government

• a tribute paid to the government

• a group of lawmakers who decide on the laws of a country

• a democratic form of government

The American Revolution was a time when people in America wanted to get their independence from

• France

• Spain

• Great Britain

• Portugal

True or False: The American Revolution influenced the French and Haitian revolutions.

• True

• False

Which revolution came first?

• The American Revolution

• The French Revolution

• The Haitian Revolution

Who helped the Americans win their independence?

• Great Britain

• France

• Spain

• Portugal

What type of government did many countries have during the 1600-1700's?

• absolute monarchies

• republics

• direct democracies

• representative democracies

Whose ideas helped spur revolutions around the world?

• Thomas Jefferson's

• the Enlightenment Thinkers

• the Scientific Revolution

• the Greek Philosophers

What was the Reign of Terror?

• A time when British soldiers terrorized the American colonists.

• A time when King Louis of France put thousands of his people in jail.

• The time when kings ruled with absolute power in Europe

• A time when thousands of French people died by the guillotine.

Choose two inspirations for the French Revolution.

• the American Revolution

• the Scientific Revolution

• the ideas of the Enlightenment

• Humanist ideas

Revolutionaries stormed what famous prison and armory in France?

• The Bastille

• King Louis XVI's palace

• the Palace at Waterloo

• Yorktown