ACE History: Year 8-FE Revision

Who led the Americans during the Battle of Yorktown?

• Donald Trump

• George Washington

• Abraham Lincoln

• General Cornwallis

Why were many Americans unhappy about being ruled by the British?

• Acts were passed to close the American's harbor

• British prevented courts from bringing American officials to trial.

• British opened fire at American protesters who gathered to stand against increased in taxes

• Americans were not allowed to send representatives to parliament

The American's Bill of rights guaranteed the following rights...

• Freedom of religion

• Freedom of press, speech and assembly

• the right to freedom, property and security

• the right to keep and bear firearms

______ is an elected group of politicians responsible for making laws in the USA.

In France, if King Louis XVI wanted to arrest someone, all he had to do was...

• sign and send a sealed letter.

• demand the person stand before the King for a crime they did not commit

• personally seized the person

• to pay bribes to the police and the judge for an unfair trial.

Peasants' lives in France in the 1780s....

• rents are high and they have to do unpaid work

• pay taxes to the government and the church

• need to buy their way out of the military service

• Bread was the only cheap food they can afford

The guillotine is...

• an execution device

• a torture device

• a weapon for war

• a tool for building

Changes made by the Revolution in France were...

• slave trade abolished

• parliament rather than the king now makes the laws.

• power of the king was limited under the control of the parliament

• divorce is now illegal

____________ believed that being a Catholic made you a traitor, and created a group called 'The Protestant Association.'

• Feargus O Connor

• Lord George Gordon

• Henry Hunt

• William Lovett

The Riot Act was...

• an action of riot caused by an uncontrollable crowd

• a drama that retells the story of the Gordon Riot

• a warning read out loud before the military could act.

• a fake riot, done for the sole purpose of causing the military to act.