Chapter 10 Flashcards
France enlisted some Indian tribes to fight the English colonists, but England prevailed over the French in a war called…
French and Indian War to English and Seven Years’ War to Europe
Grenville and Townshend passed very unpopular laws including the…
Revenue Act, Stamp Act, and Tea Act
A student of the enlightenment who urged colonists to support the movement
Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine’s widely distributed pamphlet to help support the American Revolution
Common Sense
The document American’s signed to display their isolation from England
Declaration of Independence
Louis XVI needed to raise taxes after some droughts. So to get everybody on board, he needed to call a meeting of the…
Estates General
Because the Third Estate didn’t get their wish of more freedom, they declared themselves the…
National Assembly
A document recognizing natural rights and based on the ideas of the Enlightenment and the Declaration of Independence
Declaration of the Rights of Man
Under a new constitution, this group became the new ruling body, and quickly abolished the monarchy and proclaimed France a republic.
The Convention
The Convention imprisoned the royal family, and this was led by the…
Jacobins
The Convention began to worry about foreign threats and internal chaos, so it threw out the constitution and created the…
Committee of Public Safety
Led by the Jacobins and _____, the Committee of Public Safety wasn’t a committee of personal safety, since it was responsible for the beheading of tens of thousands of French citizens.
Maximilien Robespierre
