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THE AMERICAN AND FRENCH REVOLUTIONS + NAPOLEON BONAPARTE(3,4 points),…

- - - - by increasing taxes
  - - - won by the colonists
      - Peace of Paris was signed
        
        Great Britain recognised USA’s independence.
  - - - citizens hold the power
    - - government functions are divided
    - - The President
      - chosen by the House of Representatives every 4 years
    - - to elect members of the House of Representatives
    - - to life, liberty and property
- - - - The Girondins
        
        moderates
        
        supported parliamentary monarchy
      - The Jacobins
        
        liberals
        
        radical republicans
      - The Plain
        
        the majority
        
        didn't belong to any party
    - - assumed legislative and executive powers
      - Republic was proclaimed in September 1792
    - - Parisians rose up and attacked the Bastille prison
    - - The new Constitution was approved
      - Internal instability
    - - representation was based on class or estates
        
        the nobility, the clergy and commoners
    - - Napoleon Bonaparte led a coup d’état
      - Napoleon started governing
  - - - books of grievances
- - - - ensured the equality of all citizens before the law
    - - created a Court of Accounts
  - - - against Great Britain
    - - Russia
      - Prussia
      - Austria
      - Great Britain
  - - - repeated victories against Austria, Prussia and Russia,
      - control of Italy and Central Europe and the Holy Empire
      - invaded Spain, which was ruled by his brother, José I
      - British fleet won the Battle of Trafalgar (1805), taking control of the seas.
    - - Napoleon tried to conquer Russia, but he was defeated
      - Napoleon’s defeat and exile in 1814.
        
        He regained power, but in 1815, the British defeated Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo