Age of Revolutions - Final Exam 2024

American Revolution Causes

Stamp Act, Sugar Act, Intolerable Acts, Boston Tea Party

American Revolution Impacts

independence of the 13 colonies from British rule + independence of the USA as a nation

French Revolution Causes

social inequality, economic hardship, power abuse by government, financial crisis

French Revolution Impacts

overthrow of gov, established a republic, equal estates, Declaration of Rights of Man, Reign of Terror, King Louis XVI killed

French and Indian War

war btwn Britain and France: british went into debt + taxed their american colonists to pay for it which upset them + led to american revolution

Three Estates in France

1. Wealthy 2. nobles 3. commoners

Global Impact of American Revolution

inspired French Rev., regained colonies from Britain, expansion westward

National Assembly

third estate was upset because they didn’t get any votes in gov so they chose to walk out + create the National Assembly + they all took the Tennis Court Oath

Tennis Court Oath

pledge by members of French Third Estate to stay together until they wrote a constitution that was more fair in order to assert their representation + political power

Storming of the Bastille

Paris citizens angry with monarch, attacked and captured the Bastille to obtain gunpowder + weapons

Women’s March on Versailles

protest by Parisian women for bread, food shortages, high prices that led to royal family moving to Paris

Reign of Terror

Committee of Public Safety conducted trials + beheaded criminals

Napoleon’s Rise to Power

good military man, brought order + stability, issued napoleonic code which gave some people freedom

Napoleonic code

gave some people freedom and protected their rights

Sugar Act

law passed by British to tax American colonies on sugar imported from West Indies in order to pay for French + Indian war

Stamp Act

act imposed by British that required american colonists to pay a tax in order to pay for French + Indian war

Intolerable Acts

law passed by British to punish Massachusetts colony for Boston Tea Party

Boston Tea Party

american colonists angry at Britain for imposing taxes, dumped 342 chests of tea imported from the British into the harbor

Boston Massacre

angry with sight of British soldiers, american colonists threw snowballs, fight broke out, people died