The Enlightenment
This 18th-century intellectual movement used reason and logic to improve society.
What is the Enlightenment?
Significance of Mary Wollstonecraft in the Enlightenment.
She wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman and advocated for the equal legal treatment of women.
Absolute monarchy.
What is a system of government where one ruler has final/complete control?
The French Revolution began when this group met in Paris to change the legal system.
What is the Estates-General?
Napoleon’s greatest military mistake was invading this country during winter.
What is Russia?
He believed all people are born with natural rights—life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This woman wrote a response to the DORMAC called the Declaration of the Rights of Women and the Female Citizen.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
Enlightenment thinkers believed governments should get their power from this source instead of God.
What is the People?
This revolutionary document declared all men equal and ended unfair taxation. (I need the full title)
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
One positive effect of Napoleon’s rule was the spread of these Enlightenment ideas within France.
What is equality before the law for all Frenchmen?
Montesquieu’s idea that government power should be divided into 3 co-equal branches is called this.
What is the separation of powers?
A key result of the Enlightenment outside of France.
What was the beginning of a number of Enlightenment revolution (US, Latin America, etc)
These monarchs adopted Enlightenment ideas but kept their absolute power.
Who are enlightened despots?
The period of mass executions during the revolution was called this.
What is the Reign of Terror?
Napoleon created this set of laws that influenced legal systems across Europe.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
These informal social gatherings helped spread Enlightenment ideas across Europe.
What are Salons?
The Scientific Revolution encouraged people to use these two tools instead of relying only on the Church.
What are reason and observation (or logic and science)?
Jacobins made him lose his mind.
Who is Louis Capet (XVI)?
What are three causes of the French Revolution (does not have to be answered in the form of a question)?
Economic inequalities between the 3 estates, Enlightenment ideas, absolute monarchy in France, increased literacy rates, the influence of the Scientific Revolution in challenging the authority of the Church
Napoleon took control of France through this kind of government overthrow.
What is a coup d'état?
Rousseau’s idea that people agree to work for the common good through a shared agreement is known as this.
What is the social contract?
The spread of new ideas and scientific methods during the 1500s–1600s helped spark this later movement.
What is the Enlightenment
Rationalism.
What is the theory that opinions and actions should be based on reason and knowledge rather than on religious belief or emotional response?
These three groups make up the 3 estates.
Who are clergy, nobles and commoners?
(not to be answered in the form of a question) What is one reason some would consider Napoleon a friend of the Enlightenment and one reason he would not be?
(other answers accepted) Napoleon set the Napoleonic Code ensuring legal equality for citizens.
Napoleon crowned himself a monarch (emperor)