Enlightenment Thinkers
This Enlightenment thinker believed in natural rights (life, liberty, and property)
Who is John Locke
This period of the Revolution, led by the Committee of Public Safety, was full of mass executions.
What is the Reign of Terror
The king of France who was executed in 1793 during the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI
This enlightenment idea says that governments get their power from the consent of the governed.
What is popular sovereignty?
Before the Revolution, the First Estate was made up of this group.
Who are the clergy?
This philosopher wrote The Social Contract and believed that society corrupts the natural good of people.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau
In June 1789, members of the Third Estate took an oath vowing to meet until they could create a new constitution for France. What is this oath called?
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
This military leader later became the Emperor of France.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This Enlightenment principle says that rulers (even with divine right) do not have the right to govern without the people's approval.
What is the consent of the governed?
This invention helped spread Enlightenment ideas by making books cheaper and more accessible.
This Enlightenment thinker believed in the separation of powers in government to prevent tyranny.
Who is Montesquieu
This event marked the symbolic start of the French Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille
This man was a key figure of the Jacobins and supported the use of terror to support the revolution, but was arrested and executed in 1794.
Who is Robespierre?
This political philosophy argues that government power should be separated into parts to avoid one part having too much power.
What is the separation of powers?
This space hosted discussions between scholars and upper-class women in France.
What is a salon?
This Enlightenment thinker wrote The Wealth of Nations, in which he argued that free markets operate best when governments follow laissez-faire
Who is Adam Smith?
In this event, thousands of French women marched to Versailles and demanded bread.
What is the Women's March on Versailles
This revolutionary man was assassinated in his bathtub by Charlotte Corday in 1793 and was painted by Jacques-Louis David.
Who is Jean-Paul Marat
This Enlightenment idea argues that people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and government. A right governments should protect.
What are natural rights?
This document declared that all men were equal and guaranteed freedoms like speech and religion during the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
This man argued in favor of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and separation of church and state in his book Treatise on Toleration.
Who is Voltaire?
In 1792, revolutionaries stormed this royal home, which led to the king's arrest and the downfall of the monarchy.
What is the Tuileries Palace?
This woman wrote the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and was later executed.
Who is Olympe de Gouges?
This Enlightenment concept emphasizes that laws should be created with the consent of the governed and that rulers should have a social contract with their subjects.
What is the social contract theory?
This economic theory argued that free markets and competition without government intervention would create wealth and prosperity.
What is laissez-faire economics?