Enlightenment Ideas
Many of these occurred in various countries as a result of the Enlightenment. It means a change:
Revolution
This philosopher wrote about Natural Rights (life, liberty and property):
John Locke
This intellectual movement inspired the French Revolution:
The Enlightenment
This was the name of the five-member group that governed France (before Napoleon):
The Directory
This was the French monarch who was beheaded on guillotine as a result of the French Revolution:
Louis XVI
This is a ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of their people:
Absolute monarch
This philosopher believed in freedom of expression:
Voltaire
The French Revolution ended this type of government in France:
Absolute monarchy
How did Napoleon take control of France?
A coup (overthrew the Directory)
This man took control of France following the beheading of the last monarch:
Robespierre
This was a main idea to come out of the Enlightenment. It inspired many other countries to overthrow their monarchies:
Democracy or self-government
This philosopher came up with the "social contract:"
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This was the name of the class of people in France which included everyone except for the nobility and clergymen:
Third Estate
Napoleon was what type of leader?
A dictator
This type of government (similar to a monarchy) took over after the French Revolution:
dictatorship
This is another name for the Enlightenment
Age of Reason
This idea of Montesquieu inspired the US constitution. It is how our government is split up:
separation of powers (or three branches)
This was the name given to the representative body of the three estates called into session by Louis XVI:
Estates General
Under Napoleon, this occurred to the French class system:
It was abolished (went away)
This is the name given to the period of time Robespierre ruled over France:
Reign of Terror
This is the term for a monarch that embraced some ideas of the Enlightment (but stayed in power):
Enlightened despot
This document was written during the French Revolution and was inspired by the ideas of John Locke:
Declaration of the Rights of the Man (& of the Citizen) - 1789
The revolution in this country inspired the French Revolution:
America
One reason the Directory was ineffective:
Weak, poorly funded, struggled with rampant corruption and repeated coups
After the French Revolution, many countries in this part of the world were inspired to start their own revolutions: