The Enlightenment
It encouraged people to use reason, observation, and experimentation to understand the world and improve society.
This Enlightenment thinker emphasized natural rights and the right to overthrow the government.
Who was John Locke?
This person wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
This was introduced during the Reign of terror and used as a more humane way to end life.
What is the guillotine?
The four governments of the French Revolution.
What were the National Assembly, the Legislative Assembly, The National Convention, and the Directory?
Rights that are people are born with.
What are natural rights?
This Enlightenment thinker believed in the separation of powers.
Who was Baron de Montesquieu?
A principle saying the government gets its power from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
The three estates of the Ancien Regime.
First Estate: clergy
Second Estate: Nobility
Third Estate: The Bourgeoisie, urban workers, rural workers.
This Government was considered the most radical.
What was the National Convention?
The term for people who supported laissez-faire economics.
What are physiocrats?
Advocated for women's natural rights and the right of education.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
What was one major reason the American colonists wanted independence from Britain?
They were angry about being taxed without representation in Parliament.
Three economic issues in France
What is Inflation, Taxation, and starvation?
This government was overthrown by Napoleon's coup d'etat.
What was the Directory?
This is a policy allowing businesses to operate with little or no government interference.
What is laissez-faire?
The thinker who introduced the "social contract" and believed in people working together for the common good.
Who was Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This treaty ended the Revolutionary War and declared independence for the colonies.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
What did the Third Estate want from the government?
More political power and equal treatment.
These two groups held power during the Legislative Assembly.
What were the Sans-culottes and the Jacobins?
This is the restriction of access to ideas and information
This thinker preferred logic over belief and believed in freedom of speech and religion.
Who was Voltaire?
This event marks the beginning of fighting in the American Revolution.
What was the Battle of Lexington and Concord? (April 19, 1775)
This is an assembly where each estate got to vote for what they wanted.
What was the estates general?
These documents were written during the National Assembly.
What are the tennis court oath, the civil constitution of the clergy, the French Constitution of 1791, and the Declaration of the Rights of man?