This Enlightenment thinker had the ideas of inalienable rights OR life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
A ruler of a country, passed down from father to son.
What is a sovereign?
This social system separated the French people into three classes, with the clergy at the top and the peasants on the bottom.
What is the Estate System?
He had the idea that a government should be divided into three branches: the judicial, executive, and legislative.
Who is Montesquieu?
A member of the church.
What is the clergy?
This 1770s event led to the start of the French Revolution.
What is the American Revolution?
This person created the idea of popular sovereignty, or a government ruled by the people.
Who is Rousseau?
Ideas or things that have no religious or spiritual basis.
What is secular?
This event led to arrests and public executions, in order to repress opposition, throughout France.
What is Louis XVI's execution?
This Enlightenment thinker agreed with absolute monarchs and thought that a government should be very strong.
Who is Hobbes?
French middle class.
What is the bourgeoisie?
The French Revolution inspired this island event.
What is the Haitian Revolution? What are Latin American revolts?
This philosophe believed in both freedom of speech and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
A philosophical and intellectual movement in Europe in the late 1600s, where philosophers reconsidered the role of the state and the individual
What is the Enlightenment?
Social and economic grievances among the lower classes caused a conflict between these two groups.
Who are Louis XVI and the French people?