Europe Before the Rev
True or False: You can move up in society being born a as a serf
What is False
What was the Enlightenment?
What is an intellectual movement where thinkers questioned the structure of society
What reasoning did kings use to justify the throne?
What is Divine Right
Which estate was responsible for paying taxes
What is the third estate
What is Max Robespierre
What was the standard governing style in Europe before before the Revolution?
What is Monarchies/ Kings and Queens
Who were the three philosophers that we studied in class?
What is Locke, Montesquieu, and Rousseau
What did it mean to call someone a heretic?
How did King Louis try to raise money when France was in debt?
What was the name of the committee that Robespierre was in charge of?
What is The Committee of Public Safety
What was the dominating religion in Europe?
What is Christianity/Catholicism
What was Locke's natural rights theory?
What is Life, Liberty and Property
What was the machine used in the public executions?
What is the guillotine
What is 1. She spent tax money on shopping sprees and 2. She was from Austria
Name one threat revolutionary leaders said justified harsh measures during the Terror.
What is Foreign armies could defeat the Republic, or internal rebellion could weaken or overthrow it.
What was the role of the church in education?
What was Montesquieu's main argument?
What is separation of powers and 3 branches
What did the third estate create after the Estates General meeting?
What is the National Assembly
What was the name of the meeting that King Louis called to fix France?
What is the Estates General meeting
What did Napoleon do that was against the ideals of the revolution?
What is he crowned himself emperor
What was the name of the system that society functioned on
What is Feudalism
What was Rousseau's main argument?
What is improving the general will, create laws that help everyone and everyone benefits
List who was in the First, Second, and Third Estate
Second: the nobility
Third: The peasants
What was the tennis court oath
What is the third estate not leaving the royal tennis court until the created a new constitution that worked for all people in France
What was the law that Napoleon created that helped France?
What is he created the Napoleonic Code