AP World History Chapter 21 - Mr. Mulford

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AP World History

Chapter 21: Revolutions Around the Atlantic Name: ________________

Study Guide

Objectives:

 Where were the economic and ideological causes of the American, the French, and the Haitian Revolutions?

Compare and contrast the outcomes of the American, the French, and the Haitian revolutions.

Compare the monarch, aristocratic & commoner reactions to the revolutions?

Describe how the extension of democratic rights evolved in Europe and the United States of America.

 How did these revolutions begin to transform Western political culture and eventually influence revolutionaries around the world?

Section 1: Prelude to Revolution: Eighteenth Century Crisis

1. What did the colonial wars of the eighteenth century trigger?

2. What was the Enlightenment?

3. What ideas did John Locke argue?

4. One of Rousseau’s most radical ideas was that government should do what?

5. How did Monarchs such as Catherine the Great of Russia and Frederick the Great of Prussia respond to the Enlightenment?

6. In 1793, the French hired Nicholas-Jacques Conte to do what?

7. How were women instrumental in the dissemination of new political ideas?

8. The Enlightenment’s intellectual ferment most deeply influenced what social class?

9. Benjamin Franklin was an example to European intellectuals that America was doing what?

10. What two related problems did the British face after defeating the French in 1763?

Section 2: American Revolution

11. The Proclamation of 1763 and the Quebec Act of 1774 were intended to

12. The Stamp Act of 1765 required that colonists pay a tax on

13. Which 1770 event radicalized public opinion throughout the American colonies?

14. Before 1775, what tactics did the European colonial settlers use to respond to British policies?

15. Common Sense, the pamphlet that stirred up anti-British sentiment on the eve of the American Revolution, was written by

16. The British had significant allies during the revolution including

17. The Battle of Saratoga in 1777 was crucial because it

18. At Yorktown, the British General Cornwallis did what?

19. The Constitutional Convention of 1787 is called “the Second American Revolution” because

20. In the Constitution, why were slaves counted as three-fifths of a person

21. The Constituion allowed the slave trade to continue until what year?

22. Under which state Constitution were women and African-Americans eligible to vote until 1807?

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Section 3: French Revolution

23. What were causes of the French Revolution? What type of government was formed afterwards?

24. What happened to King Louis XVI as a result of the French Revolution?

25. Give some examples of the growing poverty in France

26. What contributed to the financial crisis that triggered the French Revolution?

27. What did the Assembly of Notables do in 1787?

28. In 1787, King Louis XVI called a meeting of the Estates General, the French national legislature, because

29. Which French Estate declared itself to be the National Assembly?

30. What was Louis XVI’s reaction to the formation of the National Assembly?

31. As economic depression, hunger and high bread prices combined in 1789, how did a Parisian crowd react?

32. When the Parisian crowd marched to Versailles, it demanded what?

33. What was accomplished by the new French constitution?

34. In September of 1792, rumors of counterrevolutionary plots caused mobs to

35. The Jacobin members of the National Convention were

36. During the continuing political crisis, Maximilien Robespierre forged an alliance with

37. Napoleon became Europe’s first popular dictator because he

38. Napoleon won the support of the peasantry and the middle class by

39. Despite the dominance of the French military, the British defeated Napoleon’s navy in 1805 at

40. Napoleon’s invasion of __________ led to his decline.

41. After his escape from Elba, Napoleon was defeated at

Section 4: Revolution Spreads: Conservatives Respond

42. Saint Domingue was most important to France because

43. Aside from the brutal conditions on Saint Domingue, the island erupted in revolt because

44. Who was François Dominique Toussaint L’Ouverature? What did he do that made him famous?

45. The central objective of the Congress of Vienna was

46. In 1830, Greece won its independence from the

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