1. Persons who leave their own country in order to settle in another for political reasons.
2. In the present context, the nobles who fled France in the years following the French Revolution came to be called emigres.

1. The English conquest of Canada and removal of all danger from the French made the British government to feel secure.
2. This in turn made the colonies jittery and less disposed than ever to submit to the .dictates of England.

French society had three main divisions or estates:
1. Clergy (the priestly class), Nobility (the landed and aristocratic class), and
2. The rest, the commoners, formed the unprivileged class.

1. The Bourgeoisie comprised the educated middle class.
2. Writers, doctors, teachers, lawyers, judges, and civil servants formed this class.

The revolt of colonies against England was a direct consequence of England's intervention in the Seven Years' War.

Boston Tea Party (1773):
1. In the wake of the Boston Massacre, around 100 activists dressed like Native Americans, boarded the three ships carrying tea and threw 342 boxes into sea at Boston.
2. This incident came to be called the Boston Tea Party.

Macadamisation means to pave the road by laying and compacting successive layers of broken stone, often with hot tar.

1. The Northern states, on the other hand, were devoid of agricultural farmlands.
2. They created mills for cutting timber, ship-building and milling the grains.
3. Iron and textiles were also manufactured. The harbours promoted sea-borne trade.