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History Chapter 16
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Stated that some powers were specifically delegated to the federal government. | Federalism |
| Stated that government was based on the consent of the governed. | Popular sovereignty |
| Stated that people possess the rights that cannot be surrendered or taken away. | Natural rights |
| A tax on real and personal property | Taille |
| A tax on each person | Capitation |
| Income tax | Vingtieme |
| Lists of grievances | Cahiers |
| A machine that chops people’s heads off. | Guillotine |
| Gave every group a role in the war. | Levee en masse |
| Temporary alliance of nations | Coalition |
| Sudden and illegal seizure of power | Coup d'état |
| Little wars | Guerilla |
| Was what it was called when Russia burned everything that might be of value to the enemy. | Scorched-earth policy |
| Sailed to the New World to find freedom | Pilgrims |
| Imposed martial law and forced colonists to house and financially support British troops. | King George III |
| General who strengthened the American cause | George Washington |
| Led the British army who was forced to surrender to French and American troops. | Lord Cornwallis |
| It was the name given to the political and social order in France before the French Revolution. | Old Regime |
| Consisted of clergy members | First Estate |
| Consisted of the nobility | Second Estate |
| Consisted of everyone else | Third Estate |
| He was known as “Good King Louis”, and he did not have the character to rule France. | King Louis XVI |
| Advocated the most radical changes; got their name from an empty Jacobin convent used for meetings. | Jacobins |
| One of the most prominent leaders of the Jacobin group, he became the de facto dictator, he also urged Robsepierre to stop bloodshed. | George-Jaques Danton |
| One of the most prominent leaders of the Jacobin group | Jean-Paul Marat |
| One of the most prominent leaders of the Jacobin group and he started the reign of terror. | Maximilien de Robespierre |
| A group of twelve men who took over the everyday affairs of the government. | Committee of Public Safety |
| A constitution that enacted creating a new government. | Directory |
| His influence was so strong that they named it the Napoleonic Era, he also devised a plan of attack called the Continental System. | Napoleon Bonaparte |
| He destroyed the French fleet at Alexandria and blocked Napoleon. | Lord Nelson |
| The British duke who led the allied forces to win a decisive victory. | Duke of Wellington |
| It was when a group of colonists dressed as Indians and dumped a shipload of tea into the Boston Harbor. | Boston Tea Party |
| Began a war that neither side meant to start. | Battles of Lexington and Concord |
| The day the Declaration of Independence was signed | July 4, 1776 |
| It was the turning point of the War for Independence. | Battle of Saratoga |
| The battle where French and American troops forced the British army to surrender. | Battle of Yorktown |
| One of the buildings that was stormed by a mob. Not the Bastille | Hôtel des Invalides |
| It was when the English maintained control of the seas and Lord Nelson died. | Battle of Trafalgar |
| Napoleon's greatest triumph | Battle of Austerlitz |
| It was the first isle where Napoleon was sent into exile. | Elba |
| One of the buildings that was stormed by a mob and symbolized the downfall of the Old Regime. | Bastille |
| It was the battle against Napoleon and allied forces where Napoleon was defeated. | Battle of Waterloo |
| Where Napoleon was exiled the second time. | St. Helena |
| It was the document that established civil authority. | Mayflower Compact |
| It was an act that extended special privileges to Quebec. | Quebec Act |
| Document that declared the independence of America. | Declaration of Independence |
| It acknowledged that America was free independent states and it established U.S. boundaries. | Treaty of Paris (1783) |
| Served as the governing document for a new system of government. | U.S. Constitution |
| They were ten amendments that congress passed which restrained government interference with personal liberties. | Bill of Rights |
| It stated that they would not disband until they had written a constitution. | Tennis Court Oath |
| It was the most prominent early adoption of the Assembly; it took its ideas from the English Bill of Rights, Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau, and from the Declaration of Independence. | Declaration of the Rights of Man |
| It placed the church under state control, provided for the election of all the clergy by the people, and required the clergy to take an oath of loyalty to the state | Civil Constitution of the Clergy |
| It called the French people to rally behind their king and protect him from the leaders of the Revolution | Brunswick Manifesto |
| It meant “Long live the Nation”. | Vive la nation! |
| It was the most destructive and violent phase of the French Revolution. | Reign of Terror |
| A new government formed with a new constitution. | Consulate |
| They were the codified French laws. | Code Napoleon |
| What were the three unalienable rights proposed by the Enlightenment philosophers? | Life, liberty, and personal property |
| What countries formed an alliance against Napoleon and France? | Britain, Russia, Austria, and the Ottoman Turks |
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