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AMERICAN REVOLUTION

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

BILL OF RIGHTS

BLOCKADE

COUP D’ETAT

EMIGRES

FRENCH REVOLUTION

GEORGE WASHINGTON

GRAN COLOMBIA

GRAND ARMY

GUERRILLA WARFARE

GUILLOTINE

JOSE DE SAN MARTIN

JUNTAS

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LOUIS XVI

MARIE ANTOINETTE

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

NAPOLEONIC CODE

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ROBESPIERRE

SANS-CULOTTES

SIMON BOLIVAR

TENNIS COURT OATH

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Political Revolutions: Word Search Puzzle

ANSWER KEY

TERMS

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

BENJAMIN FRANKLIN

BILL OF RIGHTS

BLOCKADE

COUP D’ETAT

EMIGRES

FRENCH REVOLUTION

GEORGE WASHINGTON

GRAN COLOMBIA

GRAND ARMY

GUERRILLA WARFARE

GUILLOTINE

JOSE DE SAN MARTIN

JUNTAS

LATIN AMERICA

LEVEE EN MASSE

LOUIS XVI

MARIE ANTOINETTE

NAPOLEON BONAPARTE

NAPOLEONIC CODE

PLEBISCITE

ROBESPIERRE

SANS-CULOTTES

SIMON BOLIVAR

TENNIS COURT OATH

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Arab Spring

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Industrial

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Mexican

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Revolution Causes WorksheetRead about each revolution and write down 5 causes of each revolution. At the bottom of thepage write 3 similar causes.

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Revolution Causes Worksheet Answer Key

Read about each revolution and write down 5 causes of each revolution. At the bottom of thepage write 3 similar causes.

Causes of Three Revolutions

American Revolution Haitian Revolution Mexican War ofIndependence

1. The governing country,Great Britain, was miles awayacross the Atlantic Ocean.2. Laws were made in GreatBritain with no representativesfrom the Colonies.3. Colonists were not allowedto settle across theAppalachian Mountains.4. Taxes collected in theColonies were often sent toGreat Britain.5. Colonists were forced tohave British soldiers in theirhomes.6. Parliament restricted townmeetings in Boston and closedthe port.

1. There was a castesystem.2. African-born slaves weretreated badly.3. Slaves had no say in theirlives.4. The governing country,France, was miles awayacross the Atlantic Ocean.5. France made the laws forHaiti.6. French planters made allthe money from sellingsugar.

1. People were in a castesystem with the low castestreated poorly.2. Riches of the colony weresent to Spain.3. Spain kept raising taxes.4. Because of a drought, therewas a famine.5. Spain ruled the colony frommany miles away in Europe.

Three Similarities

Possible answers:1.The colonizing country of the colonies was far away.

2. Money made in the colonies was not making the working people rich.

3. Some groups of people were treated poorly.

4. The ruling country made laws that were seen as unfair by the people in thecolonies.

The American RevolutionStudent Reading

The American Revolution refers to Thirteen Colonies of the British Empiregaining their independence and becoming the United States of America.Between 1775 and 1783 the colonies united against the British and entered intoarmed conflict known as the American Revolutionary War.

There were many causes for the American Revolution. Great Britain wasmany hundreds of miles across the Atlantic Ocean. Because of this,communication was slow. The colonists felt they were treated poorly by thegovernment of Great Britain and did not have many rights. The British Parliamentmade laws without representation from the colonial legislatures. After a war withFrance, Great Britain wanted the colonies to pay a portion of the cost of this war.Taxes were put on documents like newspapers and playing cards; products likepaper, glass, and tea. In addition, Colonists were not allowed to settle across theAppalachian Mountains. Colonists were expected to keep British soldiers in theirhomes. Finally, Parliament restricted town meetings in Boston and closed theport. When the American colonists became angry enough to declare theirindependence from Great Britain, Great Britain did not want to give up theircolonies, so a war began between the colonies and Great Britain. It was calledthe Revolutionary War.

In 1781 the British surrendered to the American colonists. The peace treatywith Great Britain was called the Treaty of Paris. The outcomes of this treatywere that the colonies became independent from Great Britain and changed theirname to the United States of America. The U.S. was given control of all the landeast of the Mississippi River and south of the Great Lakes except for Florida.Eventually, a distant government in Britain was replaced with a local one asdescribed in the U.S. Constitution. The Constitution becomes the law of theUnited States. Representatives from each state were elected by the citizens tomake and vote on accepting this new form of government.

The Haitian RevolutionStudent Reading

The Haitian Revolution was a revolt of slaves on the island of Saint-Domingue (as Haiti was known at that time) in the Caribbean Sea. Thisrevolution occurred between 1791 and 1804. The slaves from Africa revoltedagainst the French owners of the sugar plantations. This rebellion was the mostsuccessful slave rebellion in the Western Hemisphere. Haiti was a colony ofFrance.

By the 1740’s, Saint-Domingue had become one of the leading suppliers ofthe world’s sugar. Sugar was grown on plantations, and plantations needed a lotof workers. Most of the workers were enslaved Africans. There was a rigid castesystem in place. At the top of the caste system were the white French plantationsowners. Then came free blacks. African–born slaves were at the bottom andtreated badly by the plantation owners. Because the death rate exceeded thebirth rate of these slaves, more African slaves had to be imported each year. Theslaves had no control over their lives.

The leadership in France was not stable, and France was many miles awayfrom Haiti. The white planters made their wealth from the sale of sugar. Most ofthese planters were from France. Much of their wealth was spent in France. OnAugust 22, 1791, a great slave uprising plunged the country into war. The slavesrebelled against the planters who were supported by French soldiers.

The French forces were finally defeated in 1803 by the slaves. Theoutcomes of this rebellion was that Saint-Domingue was declared independentfrom France and it was renamed “Haiti” after the Arawak Indian name for theisland. Haiti became a free republic where all the citizens were entitled to vote forleaders and to make the laws. After years of war, its sugar plantations weredestroyed. The slaves were freed, but they were uneducated and had few skills.They were not able to run the sugar plantations. The end of the HaitianRevolution in 1804 marked the end of colonialism in Haiti, but the caste systemcontinued to affect the population.

The Mexican War of IndependenceStudent Reading

The Mexican War of Independence was an armed conflict between thepeople of Mexico and Spain from 1810 to 1821. Mexico was a colony of Spainknown as New Spain. The people of New Spain sought independence fromSpain. What started as a peasant’s rebellion against their colonial masters endedas an alliance between all the people of New Spain against Spain.

The causes of the Mexican Revolution were many. Mexico (New Spain)was unhappy under the Spanish rule. People were organized into a caste systembased on race. First came the European born whites, then the Creoles (colonialborn whites), Mestizos (part Indian and part Spanish), and last were the Indians.Different castes had different rights. The Creoles and Mestizos were treatedpoorly and not given many rights. The wealth of the colony went to Spain as theSpanish government kept raising taxes without the support of the people in NewSpain. Spain needed money to fight a war with France. Because of droughts,famine spread over New Spain. There was confusion and division in thegovernments of both Spain and New Spain. Spain was miles across the AtlanticOcean. These causes resulted in a declaration of war against Spain.

The outcome of this war was on August 24, 1821 representatives of theSpanish crown and the rebels signed the Treaty of Cordoba, which recognizedMexican independence ending three centuries of Spanish colonial rule. NewSpain became known as Mexico. Now the people of Mexico could form their owngovernment where all the citizens were entitled to vote. The Roman CatholicChurch would be the state church. And some of the castes were given morerights.