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Enlightenment

100

• Who is known for "all individuals are born with natural rights for life, liberty and property"

Answer: Who is john lock?

200

• Which Enlightenment thinker wrote "The Social contract"? 

Answer: Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

300

• What concept did John Locke advocate regarding government and individual rights?

Answer: What is the idea of natural rights?

400

Which philosopher is associated with the separation of powers in government?

Answer: Who is Montesquieu?

500

• What was Voltaire's main contribution to the Enlightenment?

Answer: What is the advocacy for freedom of speech and separation of church and state?

Old Regime

100

• What were the three estates in the Old Regime society?

Answer: What are the First Estate (clergy), Second Estate (nobility), and Third Estate (commoners)?

200

• What was the main privilege of the First and Second Estates under the Old Regime?

Answer: What is exemption from many taxes?

300

• How did the Third Estate differ from the other two estates?

Answer: What is it comprised mostly of common people and paid most of the taxes?

400

• What economic conditions contributed to discontent in France before the revolution?

Answer: What are high taxes, food shortages, and national debt?

500

• What was the significance of the Estates-General meeting in 1789?

Answer: What is it marked the beginning of the revolution and the demand for more representation?

Philosophies of Change

100

• What is the belief that reason and logic can improve society called?

Answer: What is rationalism?

200

• Which philosophy suggests that a government's legitimacy comes from the consent of the governed?

Answer: What is popular sovereignty?

300

• What is the Enlightenment idea that influenced the French Revolution regarding individual rights?

Answer: What is the belief in liberty and equality?

400

• How did Enlightenment ideas challenge the existing social order?

Answer: What is by promoting ideas of democracy and questioning absolute monarchy?

500

• What was the impact of the Enlightenment on revolutionary movements worldwide?

Answer: What is it inspired revolutions in America, France, and Latin America?

Causes of the Revolution

100

• What event is often seen as the start of the French Revolution?

Answer: What is the Storming of the Bastille?

200

• Which economic crisis contributed to the French Revolution?

Answer: What is the financial crisis due to debt from wars and royal expenditures?

300

• What was the significance of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?

Answer: What is it established the principles of individual rights and the sovereignty of the people?

400

• How did Enlightenment ideas contribute to the causes of the French Revolution?

Answer: What is by encouraging people to challenge traditional authority and demand rights?

500

• What role did the American Revolution play in the French Revolution?

Answer: What is it served as an example of successful rebellion against tyranny?

Key events of the Revolution

100

• What was the purpose of the womens march on Versailles?

Answer: What is they demanded bread and response to the royal families wrongs?

200

• What was the Reign of Terror?

Answer: What is a period during the revolution marked by mass executions of perceived enemies?

300

• Who was the leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror?

Answer: Who is Maximilien Robespierre?

400

• What significant event occurred in 1799, effectively ending the revolution?

Answer: What is the coup d'état by Napoleon Bonaparte?

500

• What was the impact of the Napoleonic Wars on Europe post-revolution?

Answer: What is it spread revolutionary ideas and led to a series of conflicts across the continent?