Overview chapter 4

• History
• Middelbare school
• havo, vwo
• Leerjaar 2

Chapter 4 - Wigs and revolutions

Goals 

- Name the three revolutions mentioned in this chapter and put them in time and space 

- give three consequences of the enlightenment 

- explain what the enlightenment is and place it in time and space 

- explain the  important role Napoleon played in the 18th century 

- explain the following terms: estate system, abolitionism, seperation of powers, constitutional state, guillotine, coup d'etat, coalition, code civil, atheism, constitution, decolonisation, moderate, radical 

abolitionism

estate system

atheism

guillotine

code civil

device for execution 

a legal document in which all the civil laws were collected 

movement that opposed slave trade and slavery

the belief that there is no god

population is divided into groups

Put the events in the correct chronological order

Reign of Terror

Directoire 

Napoleon seizes 

power

National Assembly

absolute monarchy

Louis XVI

Napoleon Bonaparte died in 1821
Which century was this?

1. 18th
2. 19th
3. 16th
4. 17th

Choose two events as "the start" of the American Revolution. Explain both choices.

Name 3 reasons why the American revolution was important?

Put the events in the correct chronological order.

Declaration of Independence

Boston Tea Party

Constitution accepted

Boston Massacre

start of the War between Britain and the colonies

The Enlightenment movement was against:

1. ignorance
2. rationality
3. tolerance
4. equality

Which answer is true?
Enlightenment ideas were often opposed by:

1. scientists & clergy
2. writers & scientists
3. nobility & clergy
4. nobility & writers

Explain why the intellectual movement of the 18th century was called the Enlightenment

Guillotine

1. French revolution
2. Batavian revolution

Patriots

1. French revolution
2. Batavian revolution

National assembly

1. French revolution
2. Batavian revolution

Bastille

1. French revolution
2. Batavian revolution

Orangists

1. French revolution
2. Batavian revolution

Stadhouder

1. Franse revolutie
2. Bataafse revolutie

Which revolution came first?

1. French revolution
2. Batavian revolution
3. American revolution

Which revolution did Napoleon end?

1. Batavian revolution
2. American revolution
3. French revolution
4. Industrial revolution

The Batavian revolution succeeded thanks to who?

1. The Prussians
2. The French
3. The English
4. The Spaniards

What was a cause of the pamphlet:
‘Aan het volk van Nederland’?

1. The start of the French revolution
2. The start of the Batavian republic
3. Napoleon becomes emperor of France
4. American independence

True or not true? (reread paragraph 4.4 if you have to) 

Niet waar

Waar

Er werd een parlement gekozen

Patriotten keerden terug met het Pruissische leger

Patriotten riepen de Bataafse monarhie uit

Patriotten voerden ideeën van de verlichting in

Revolutionaire burgers nemen de macht

Willem V vlucht naar Frankrijk

How do we call the movement to end slavery?

1. Absolutism
2. Anarchy
3. Abolitionism
4. Colonisation

What do we call the national holiday to celebrate the end of slavery?

1. The breaking of chains
2. Fourth of July
3. Keti Koti
4. Carnaval

Which sentence about slavery is untrue?

1. Christians were against slavery because the bible forbade it
2. The enlightenment was a cause for the end of slavery
3. Abolitionism aimed to end slave trade and slavery
4. All of the sentences are true

Why was the enlightenment important in the fight to end slavery

1. Because the king had all the power
2. Because the idea that all people were equal was born
3. Because enlightened people agreed with slavery
4. Because a lot of enlightened people owned slaves

Why were the Southern American states against the ending of slavery?

1. They didn't believe that slaves were people
2. They were against human rights
3. Because the plantations would become bankrupt
4. Because they were afraid of slaves