Chapter 22 Guiding Questions
1. Describe the major events that lead up to the “big three revolutions?”
a. How did colonial economics (fiscal is economic policy) lead to revolution in N. America?
b. What impact did Enlightenment ideas have on the revolutions?
 Vocab. Etc: Enlightenment, Copernicus, Social Contract Theory, Locke, Rousseau, succession, ancien
regime, Franklin
2.
3.
Identify and discuss three big ideas that lead to the American Revolution (e.g. Seven Years War was very costly for the
British Empire, which felt it had saved the colonists and expected them to pay their fair share).
Describe the impact the American Revolution had on N. America, Britain and the Americas in general.
 Vocab etc.: Washington, Constitutional Convention
4.
5.
6.
Identify and discuss three big ideas that led to the French Revolution.
Describe the impact the French Revolution had on Europe.
Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of the French Revolution with the American Revolution.
 Vocab etc: Louis XVI(16th), National Assembly, Bastille, Estates General, Marie Antoinette, First,
Second and Third Estate, Fiscal Crisis, Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Terror, Robespierre,
Jacobins.
7.
8.
How did Napoleon gain power?
What impact did Napoleon have on Europe (also see Map pg 600)? The world?
 Vocab: Civil Code of 1804
9. Identify and discuss three big ideas that lead to the Haitian Revolution.
10. What impact did the Haitian Revolution have on Haiti? France? Long term?
 Vocab: Francois Dominique Toussant L’Ouverture, gens de couleur
11. Describe the importance of the Congress of Vienna.
12. What role did women play during the Enlightenment era? During the Revolutions?
Chapter 22 Guiding Questions
1. Describe the major events that lead up to the “big three revolutions?”
a. How did colonial economics (fiscal is economic policy) lead to revolution in N. America?
b. What impact did Enlightenment ideas have on the revolutions?
 Vocab. Etc: Enlightenment, Copernicus, Social Contract Theory, Locke, Rousseau, succession, ancien
regime, Franklin
2.
3.
Identify and discuss three big ideas that lead to the American Revolution (e.g. Seven Years War was very costly for the
British Empire, which felt it had saved the colonists and expected them to pay their fair share).
Describe the impact the American Revolution had on N. America, Britain and the Americas in general.
 Vocab etc.: Washington, Constitutional Convention
4.
5.
6.
Identify and discuss three big ideas that led to the French Revolution.
Describe the impact the French Revolution had on Europe.
Compare and contrast the causes and consequences of the French Revolution with the American Revolution.
 Vocab etc: Louis XVI(16th), National Assembly, Bastille, Estates General, Marie Antoinette, First,
Second and Third Estate, Fiscal Crisis, Declaration of the Rights of Man, the Terror, Robespierre,
Jacobins.
7.
8.
How did Napoleon gain power?
What impact did Napoleon have on Europe (also see Map pg 600)? The world?
 Vocab: Civil Code of 1804
9. Identify and discuss three big ideas that lead to the Haitian Revolution.
10. What impact did the Haitian Revolution have on Haiti? France? Long term?
 Vocab: Francois Dominique Toussant L’Ouverture, gens de couleur
11. Describe the importance of the Congress of Vienna.
12. What role did women play during the Enlightenment era? During the Revolutions?