Historical moment in Europe when reason advocates to explain society and politics.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Philosophe who proposed the Natural Rights.
What is John Locke?
100
Social gatherings in France where wealthy and educated women discussed ideas with artists and philosophes.
What are Salons?
100
Major figure in the American Enlightenment, mediator during the colonists revolt against Great Britain, famous for his electricity experiments involving a kite.
What is Benjamin Franklin?
100
Absolute monarch who's weak leadership faced the French Revolution
What is Louis XVI?
200
Name that thinkers in Europe who proposed enlightened ideas during the 1700's receive.
What is philosophes or philosophers?
200
Pen name of François Marie Arouet; philosophe who advocates freedom of speech.
What is Voltaire?
200
One of the most admired hostess of the social gatherings in France, able to invite great philosophes and discuss with them about their great ideas.
What is Madame Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin?
200
True American figure of the enlightenment, believed in natural rights, principal author of the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Fourteen year old bride, heiress of the Austrian monarchy, engaged to the become the new Queen of France, found guilty of treason and decapitated by the guillotine.
What is Marie Antoinette?
300
Life, Liberty and Property.
What is Natural Rights?
300
Enlightened noble who proposed the separation of powers
What is the Baron of Montesquieu?
300
Woman who taught herself at home, published essays about the rights of women and mother to Mary Shelley -author of Frankenstein.
What is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
Document wrote in July 4th, 1776 that begins "All men are created equal..." and reflects Locke's thinking when it says that people have the right to form a new government when the old one fails to protect their rights
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The most representative act of the French Revolution
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
400
Absolute rulers who tried to use power in a justa n enlighted way
What is Enlightment despots?
400
French philosophe who opposes absolute monarchs, believes men are born free but society holds them in chains and "woman was specifically made to please man"
What is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
400
Supreme law adopted in 1787 by the first government of the United States that reads "We the people..."
What is the Constitution?
400
Jacobin leader who seized power as the result of the French Revolution
What is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
European nation where enlightened ideas flourished.
What is France?
500
Name of the person to whom Mexico was able to gain independence
What is Pepe Botellas?
500
Year when the American Revolution come to an end?
What is 1783?
500
Period in France after the French Revolution where almost 40 thousand people were sent to the guillotine