Revolutions

Question 1

What were the causes and effects of the French and Indian War?

Answer 1

Causes - Carried over from the 7 years war between France and Britain
Effects - Britain becomes a world power, ends Salutary Neglect in U.S., eventually leads to American Revolution because of taxation

Question 2

What were the causes and effects of the French Revolution?

Answer 2

Causes - Unequal voting and taxation (1st and 2nd Estates get benefits while 3rd gets none), wealth inequality (rich were very rich, poor couldn’t even afford bread)
Effects - leads to democracy that runs rampant (Reign of Terror, then Napoleon), Unstable governments in France until Congress of Vienna

Question 3

What were the causes of the American Revolution?

Answer 3

Taxation without representation, end of Salutary Neglect, Declaration of Independence said King violated rights of U.S.

Question 4

What does it mean for a government to have “checks and balances”?

Answer 4

Each branch of government checks over the others (veto power, having to go through approval of multiple branches); power of government is also spread over multiple branches (judicial, legislative, executive branches)

Question 5

Who made up the 1st estate before the French Revolution? The 2nd? The 3rd?

Answer 5

1st - Clergy (church people)
2nd - Nobility
3rd - Peasants / Commoners

Question 6

What does suffrage mean?

Answer 6

The right to vote

Question 7

Who was Maximillien Robespierre?

Answer 7

One of the leaders of the Reign of Terror; Leader of the Jacobins and the Committee of Public Safety

Question 8

What was the Reign of Terror?

Answer 8

Period after the French Revolution where radical revolutionaries held public executions of anyone seen as against the revolution or revolutionary ideals