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| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| The Declaration of Independence | was primarily a list of grievances against the king. |
| Stamp Act | an act introduced by the British prime minister George Grenville and passed by the British Parliament in 1765 as a means of raising money in the American colonies |
| No Taxation Without Representation | Mansfield’s argument was directed against the colonial position of no taxation without representation |
| The Boston Tea Party | an incident on December 16, 1773, when a group of citizens in Boston, Massachusetts, dumped tea into Boston Harbor. |
| The Articles of Confederation | were the first constitution of the United States. |
| The Constitution | is a system of fundamental laws of the United States of America |
| The Bill of Rights | is the first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States. |
| The French Revolution | is a major transformation of the society and political system of France, lasting from 1789 to 1799. |
| The Old Regime | is the political and social system that existed in France before 1789 |
| Bourgeoisie | is the free residents of European towns during the Middle Ages. |
| The Estates General | representative body in France before 1789. |
| The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen | is a revolutionary manifesto adopted on August 26, 1789, by the National Assembly of France and attached as the preamble to the new constitution of 1791. |
| Louis XVI | king of France (1774-1792), who lost his throne in the French Revolution and was later beheaded by the revolutionary regime. |
| Marie Antoinette | queen consort of Louis XVI of France from 1774 to 1792; her unpopularity helped discredit the monarchy in the period before the French Revolution |
| Estates- General of 1789 | the Estates-General was a French legislative body comprising members of the three groups, or estates, of French society: nobility, clergy, and commoners. |
| Tennis Court Oath | Regrouping at a nearby indoor tennis court on June 20, they swore not to disband until France had a constitution. |
| Fall of the Bastille | On July 14, 1789 an angry mob, tired of the oppressive brutality of the French monarchy, captured the Bastille, a prison in Paris |
| National Assembly | was a transitional body between the Estates-General and the National Constituent Assembly |
| Maximilian Robespierre | French lawyer and political leader, who became one of the most influential figures of the French Revolution and the principal exponent of the Reign of Terror |
| George Jacques Danton | French lawyer, radical but pragmatic leader of the French Revolution, whose willingness to compromise was rejected by rival factions. |
| Battle of Valmy | battle fought on September 20, 1792, at the village of Valmy, near the town of Sainte-Menehould in northeastern France. |
| Guillotine | decapitating machine, named after a French physician, Joseph Ignace Guillotin, who proposed its use in 1789 |
| The Reign of Terror | In this general crisis, revolutionary leaders began to turn on each other. The Girondins, who favored federalism, fought a battle to the death with the Jacobins |
| Jean Paul Marat | radical French revolutionary journalist and politician. |
| Committee of Public Safety | executive body in France, created by the National Convention in 1793, during the French Revolution |
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