What it was
Enlightened Thinkers were known as these people
Philosophes
Government power comes from the people
Locke
He excluded nobles and enforced his will (Sun King)
Louis XIV
A former slave that led a rebellion in Haiti
Toussaint L' Ouverture (too-san loo-vair-Toor)
It was a fortress attacked in Paris
The Bastille
Natural Rights included these things
Life, liberty and property
Power of government should be limited (3 branches)
Montesquieu
"Ill consider freeing the serfs.........no I think not"
Catherine the Great
He was born from a wealthy family but surprised the Spanish and Venezuela and Ecuador gained their independence.
Simon Bolivar
This is where you can find the Hall of Mirrors
Versailles
Human reasoning was most important not this
Traditions or religious faith
People should decide the prices in which goods are sold
Smith
"Taxes shall be fair on the whole land"
Joseph II
He helped Chile and Peru gain independence from Spanish Loyalists
Jose de San Martin
He took ideas from Locke and the Magna Carta to write his document
Thomas Jefferson
Gatherings of Enlightened thinkers put on by wealthy women
Salons
Defender of civil liberties
Voltaire
"I will not change the Social Hierarchy.... but you can worship as you wish"
Frederick the Great
The Mexican Priest that preaches a message of freedom from Spain but was defeated and executed
Father Miguel Hidalgo y Castillo
The monarchs of these countries invaded France to restore Louis XVI to power
Austria and Prussia
Philosophes reasoned that people should have these two freedoms
Speech and religious freedoms
Society as a whole should be protected
Rousseau
"I believe that my wife said something about cake.... i'm developing and everlasting headache"
Louis XVI
Portugal's ruler who fled to Brazil when France invaded
John VI
This group adopted the Declaration of Independence
Continental Congress
The best known hostesses of the Philosophes
Madame de Pompadour
Wollstonecraft believed in these right
Women's rights, equal rights, rational human beings
"I will crush the Royalists and design and organized system of laws for my country"
Napoleon
He led an uprising against Spain in Mexico leading Mexico to independence from Spain
Augustine de Iturbide
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen (France's Declaration) had this many articles that built the idea of equality and rights for all
17 articles, 6 emphasize every citizens equality before the law.