Quick Fire Questions 18

1. Name the main type of economic system that the British and French relied on?

2. Name the political act that Britain implemented to cease colonial expansion westward in North America?

3. Name the Enlightenment philosopher that Jefferson used as inspiration for the Declaration of Independence famous phrase “life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness” from?

4. What nation helped the British colonists rebel in America?
5. What kind of government was created after the American Revolutionary War?
French Revolution Moderate Phase

1. What caused the French government’s fiscal crisis before the revolution?

3. What class did the sans-culottes belong to?

4. Which estate did the nobles belong to in France?

5. What was the French Estates General? The National Assembly?

6. What oath did the National Assembly take after they walked out of the Estates General?

7. What fortress was stormed on July 14, 1789 in Paris?

8. What did the Tennis Court Oath bind French politicians to do?

9. What decree abolished nobility titles?

10. What countries did Louis XVI request help from at the beginning of the French Revolution?

French Revolution Radical Phase

1. What French King was beheaded by the guillotine?

2. What was the name of the radical political party in France that ultimately created the Department of Public Safety?

3. Who became the leader of the Jacobins?

4. What was the period of repression and execution during the Revolution called?

5. Who brought peace to the French Revolution and also became France’s emperor?

6. What was the Napoleonic Code?

7. Napoleon brought more social equality and meritocracy to France, but he took away from the people what important rights?

8. A defeat by what country led to Napoleon’s downfall?

Haitian Revolution

1. Which was the largest group of people in Haiti before the revolution?

2. Which social class began many of the Atlantic revolutions?

3. True or False: The Haitian revolution abolished slavery?

4. What sector of the economy dominated the Haitian economy while it was colony under the French?

5. What does gens de couleur mean?

6. What was the name used to distinguish the planter elite class in Haiti?

7. Tension between what two groups began the Haitian Revolution?

8. What event in France led to the tension between classes in Haiti?

9. What was the United States response to the successful slave rebellion in Haiti?