Vocabulary
This refers to the revolution that took place in France:
French Revolution
These were places where people would sit and discuss enlightened thoughts:
Salon
Philosopher who believed that humans are naturally cruel, selfish & hungry for power:
Thomas Hobbes
Explain how the Scientific Revolution influenced the Enlightenment:
Major improvements in the medical and scientific fields
What were the names of Napoleon’s two wives:
Josephine & Marie-Louise
An economic model based on ownership of property and desire to make profits:
Capitalism
Idea that the economy thrives when the government does not interfere with businesses and allows free markets to exist:
Laissez-faire
Believed in individual liberties and a division in governmental power:
Baron de Montesquieu
Name the 5 impacts of the Enlightenment:
Culture, Economics, New Ideas, Women, Kings
These were the radical changes made by Napoleon that said the government positions would not be appointed based on a person’s birth right or religion, but on their qualifications and ability:
Napoleonic Code
Thinker who uses logic and reason to investigate the nature of the universe, human society and morality:
Philosophers
New intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of the individuals to solve problems:
Enlightenment
Believed that people accused of crimes should be given a fair and speedy trial, and that capital punishment should be abolished:
Cesar Beccaria
Promotion within Napoleon’s new bureaucracy was based on what:
ability, not birth or rank
What is the title Napoleon gave himself after returning from England?
First Consul
New way of thinking about the natural world based on observation and the willingness to question accepted belief:
Scientific Revolution
One of a group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment:
Philosophe
We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.
—Declaration of Independence, 1776 was influenced why which philosopher:
John Locke
This is the radical political group who took control of France during the French Revolution:
Jacobins
What country did Napoleon attack which wound up being his biggest mistake?
Russia
A Renaissance intellectual movement in which thinkers studied classical texts and focused on human potential and achievement:
Humanism
This person claimed it was possible to build, “a republic of virtue” it caused a reign of terror:
Robespierre
In 2003, the communities of Freetown and Lakeville, Massachusetts held their annual town meetings and voted on the budget for the school district. Freetown voters approved a budget that reduced their contribution by $100,000 from what the School Committee asked for. This idea was influenced by which philosopher:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What did the Concordat of 1801 help do:
gave church back some of its power
This is the place/battle where Napoleon was taken down for the final time:
Waterloo