Revolutions

After the end of the Seven Years' War,

• the British lost complete control of their North American colonies.

• the British were forced to hand all of North America over to the French.

• American colonists grew much closer to the British

• American colonists grew increasingly frustrated with British control and taxes.

In the years leading up to the American revolution, the colonies responded to increasing British levies with the slogan

• "liberty, equality, fraternity."

• "self-government now."

• "no taxation without representation."

• "free and independent states."

The Declaration of Independence was influenced most heavily by

• Edmund Burke.

• John Locke.

• Voltaire.

• John Stuart Mill.

The leaders of the French revolution

• were more conservative than the leaders of the American revolution.

• accepted the fact that France would always have to have a king.

• called for a complete reorganizing of French political, social, and cultural structures.

• created concepts and documents that would later influence the American revolution.

The ancien régime was the

• estate that comprised the clergy in pre-revolutionary France.

• term for the first democracies in Greece and Rome.

• dangerous and growing class of urban revolutionaries.

• old order in France that revolutionary leaders wanted to replace.

On June 17^th, 1789, members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves to be the

• Convention.

• National Assembly.

• Directory.

• 
  House of Representatives.

In August 1789, the National Assembly expressed the principles of the French revolution by issuing

• the Declaration of Independence.

• the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen.

• the French Constitution of 1789.

• The Social Contract.

The guiding principles of the French revolution are summed up in the phrase

• "let them eat cake."

• "no taxation without representation."

• 
  "all men are created equal."

• "liberty, equality, fraternity."

The most radical period of the French revolution was during the leadership of

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

• Maximilien Robespierre.

• Napoleon Bonaparte.

• 
  Simón Bolívar.

Maximilien Robespierre was known as

• the "Son of Heaven."

• the "Lion of Paris."

• First "Among Equals."

• "the Incorruptible."