Enlightenment
The movement that sought to improve society through a new scientific, reason-based thinking structure whose main goal was government reform.
What is the Enlightenment?
This Government assembly was known as the Parliament of the French Kingdom, It was made up of three parts.
What is the Estates General
Who was the Angry-Bathtub-Man? Famed Printer who fanned the flames of revolution through his newspaper and rallies.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat?
Big-Head-Choppy-Offy-Thingy!
You know, the "National Razor."
What is the Guillotine?
What is Michigan?
As a direct result of the Enlightenment, these two revolutions erupted.
This Estate made up the majority of the population, of which whose members included peasants, urban workers and the wealthy middle class.
What is the Third Estate?
King Louis the 16th Tried to flee France dressed as this.
What is a commoner?
A period of time in which fear, paranoia and panic lead to excessive state executions.
What is the Reign of Terror?
These five men would replace the Committee of public safety as the most powerful Government body of the French Republic.
What is the Directory?
This Enlightenment Philosopher believed that people were born as blank slates, that Life, Liberty and Property should be protected and believed in the social contract.
Who is John Locke?
This woman was the most hated in France for her lavish spending habits, failure to have a baby and because she was a foreigner.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
What is the October Women's March?
This was the 12 person government body that accused, tried and executed so-called "enemies of the revolution."
What is the Committee of Public Safety?
Due to the Meritocratic nature of the French Republic, this led to the rise of this prominent captain.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This author would describe the state of nature as "Nasty, Brutish and Short"
This was the Palace of the kings of France
What is the Palace of Versailles?
What is the Bastille?
The leader of the Jacobin Party, Radical Republican, member of the committee of public safety and supported the Reign of Terror
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
The competency of the Directory governing ability was infamous for this.
What is stagnation and corruption?
The process by which governments and their populations find balance between the ideals of liberty, natural rights and equality and the practical needs of protection & safety.
What is the social contract?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
The Preamble to the French Constitution that guaranteed natural rights before the law.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
These were the violent revolutionaries of Paris that sought crush the traitors!
Who are the San-Culottes
The Process by which Napoleon Bonaparte over threw the Directory.
What is a "Coup D'état"?