TIMELINES and History
The two revolutions that overlapped in time during the late 1700s.
What are the American Revolution and the French Revolution?
The branch of government that makes laws.
What is the legislative branch?
This UN document recognizes 30 fundamental human rights.
What is the Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
Democracy is most associated with this value
What is liberty or freedom?
This is the name of the period when philosophers published works about fundamental human (or natural) rights completely changing history.
What is the Enlightenment?
The historical era before the Early Modern Period.
What are the Middle Ages?
The branch that enforces laws.
What is the executive branch?
The fundamental right that protects freedom to express beliefs and ideas.
What is freedom of opinion?
The social structure where people have unequal status in a society (a class system)
What is a social hierarchy?
British philosopher who promoted tolerance and advanced the idea that all humans are born with fundamental rights.
Who is John Locke?
The period in history that began with the French Revolution.
What is the Late Modern Period?
The branch responsible for interpreting laws.
What is the judicial branch?
This French document declared equality and political freedoms.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen?
Authority (over subjects) is most associated with this political structure
What is absolute monarchy (or dictatorship)?
Enlightenment philosophers spread their ideas using these published works.
What were books, essays, or encyclopedias?
What is the contemporary period?
A system where power is divided among branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
This international court tries people accused of serious human rights crimes like genocide, war crimes and crimes against humanity
What is the International Criminal Court?
A person with rights who can participate in government and elect their representatives.
What is a citizen?
Philosopher who published The Spirit of the Laws, in which he proposed the separation of government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
Today governments (and citizens) may use one of these 3 strategies to pressure countries into respecting fundamental values or rights.
What is 1) Apply economic pressure (like boycotts
OR 2) Deploy peacekeepers
OR 3) Awareness campaigns and public pressure like petitions or bans (i.e.Olympics)
A forcible overthrow of a government.
What is a revolution?
This American document protected freedoms like religion and speech.
Ironically it came out just as the French Revolution began in 1789.
What is the Bill of Rights?
A system of organizing power in a society.
What is politics or political regime?
Philosopher who defended the idea that humans are naturally good and that education should be based on the freedom of children to develop their potential.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?