revolution unit

Question 1

boston massacre

Answer 1

the first time an element of government (the brittish) meant to protect, turned their guns on the colonists

Question 2

enlightenment thinkers (def)

Answer 2

social contract theory

-government and the governed

Question 3

enlightenment thinkers (list)

Answer 3

• johnlock, personal freedom (property)
• montesquiev, split soverignity
• thomas paine, colonist advocate for revolution

Question 4

treaty of paris

Answer 4

stops the seven year war-new france ceases to exist

-both france + brittian end up broke, sets up course for FN

Question 5

navigation acts

Answer 5

economic problem, monopoly for colonial merchants
-mercantilism forcing colonies to loose money

-controlled substances -> keeping american buisness small

Question 6

stamp act

Answer 6

tax on items (newspaper, deeds, wills, cards)

-only in the colonies, one of the BIGGEST unfairness

Question 7

taxaition without representation

Answer 7

ultimate unfairness

Question 8

boston tea party

Answer 8

boston people dressed up as FN and poured tons of tea into the harbour

attempt to strike back

Question 9

quebec act

Answer 9

gives colonial governance/freedom to par

• stops from moving westward
• quebec gets everything > colonists get nothing

Question 10

montesuieu

Answer 10

author of 'split of the laws'
3 branches (judicial, executive, legislative)

Question 11

split soverignity

Answer 11

3 branches in the government

• excutive
• legislative
• judicial

Question 12

personal freedom

Answer 12

ability to own land

Question 13

social contract theory

Answer 13

relationship between the government and the governede (free speech, right to earn money)

Question 14

royal proclimation line

Answer 14

separates FN land from colonial land

Question 15

controlled substances

Answer 15

important products that are heavily watched over by the government (sugar, cotton, government)

Question 16

cotton

Answer 16

product that started england industrialism, india and southern american states

Question 17

tea

Answer 17

luxury item, want not need > creates profit

Question 18

boston

Answer 18

most important port in colonies

Question 19

billet

Answer 19

families asked to take you on

Question 20

atonomance

Answer 20

treated with freedom but some stopping rules

Question 21

idependant

Answer 21

full freedom

Question 22

intolerable acts

Answer 22

four laws that, colonists thought were unfair

1) closed down boston part
2) stops elected officials from making decisions
3) military law > martial law, being run by military
4) billet

Question 23

start of revolution

Answer 23

brittish troops come ashore

Question 24

george III

Answer 24

makes eratic decisions > crazy came from attempts to kill him, and blood diseases

Question 25

declaration of independance

Answer 25

life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness

Question 26

absolutism

Answer 26

because of birth, entitled to represent france and doesn’t know his peole - cannot empathise

Question 27

divine right of kings

Answer 27

midevil time period thought belief

Question 28

cardonal

Answer 28

prince of catholic church- covered for minors when they were kings

Question 29

liberte

Answer 29

freedom

Question 30

egalite

Answer 30

equality

Question 31

fraternite

Answer 31

collective consciousness`

Question 32

collective

Answer 32

being a part of

Question 33

consciousness

Answer 33

awareness - example canadian during vimy ridge

Question 34

collective consciousness

Answer 34

how do you know you’re apart of a nation

-born in a stressful situation that forces team work

Question 35

rhetoric

Answer 35

language + words that person/nation use to define a specific idea
-can shape the solution to what they want