Revolutions

What is a revolution?

• A 360 degree turn

• A transformative event that attempts to change a nation

• A trick on a skate board

• A term used by Galileo to describe heliocentric theory

What was the main cause of the American Revolution?

• No taxation without representation

• Massive debt caused by the English Civil War

• The people were starving

• The Encomienda System

What does no taxation without representation mean?

• Not wanting to be taxed

• Not wanting to go without representation

• The inability for a country to feed itself causing stress

• Not wanted to pay taxes to government where you have no say

How did the Enlightenment contribute to the revolution?

• ideas of Locke Montesquieu and Voltaire gave the ideology

• It shone a light on all of the disease in the colonies

• It gave the short term cause of the revolution

• It created the long term cause of the revolution

What did the success of the American Revolution contribute to?

• The Enlightenment

• Others wanting to rebel against their absolute monarchs

• The scientific revolution

• It increased the debt

Which answer puts the events of the American Revolution in order:

• Declaration, French and Indian War, Tea Party, Tea Act

• French and Indian War , Tea Act, Tea Party, Declaration

What was the Estate System just before the French Revolution?

• It was the name of the oath given by the National Assembly

• It was the name of the palace that Louis XVI lived in

• no tax for rich and all taxes for poor and middle class

• It was a country club for the rich and famous

Which one of these was NOT a cause of the French revolution?

• Extreme Inequality

• Taxation without representation

• An unfair tax system that favored the rich

• The Enlightenment Ideas

Define oppression.

• Opening pressure that leads to revolutions

• Pressing the letter O

• the cruel and unjust use of power against others

• Taxing people without their consent

Which answer puts the events of the French Revolution in order:

• Court Oath, Reign of Terror, Rise of Napoleon, Fall of Napoleon

• Fall of Napoleon, Rise of Napoleon , Court Oath, Reign of Terror