Absolutism
What is absolutism?
political system when 1 ruler holds total unrestricted power over a state
which enlightenment thinker wrote about natural rights including life, liberty, and property?
John Locke
What was the immediate cause that forced Louis XVI to call the estates-general in 1789?
Financial crisis and bankruptcy
What did the 3rd estate declare themselves after the estates-general?
National assembly
Who led the committee of public safety during the French Revolution?
Robespierre
What is the divine right of kings?
God given right to rule
Who developed the idea of separation of powers?
Montesquieu
Why was France facing a financial crisis?
Unfair tax system and costly failed wars
What was the tennis court oath?
a pledge to keep meeting until a new constitution was made
Which radical political group supported Robespierre?
Jacobins
How did monarchs justify their unlimited power?
the doctrine of divine rights
What does "popular sovereignty" mean?
People rule
Why was the storming of Bastille considered the symbolic beginning of the French Rev?
It was a symbolic act of rebelling against monarchy
What was the primary method of execution during the Reign of Terror?
Guillotine
Jean-Jaques Rousseau
The declaration of rights of man and of citizen established what form of government in France?
Constitutional monarchy
How did the Reign of Terror end?
With the execution of Robespierre
What ideas did Thomas Hobbes subscribe to?
That people should be ruled over
A new constitution
What was the purpose of the committee of public safety?
To protect the ideals of the French revolution