Scientific Revolution
What are Natural laws?
Laws that can be found through reason, and govern natural forces like gravity.
Does Hobbes believe people are innately good or evil?
Evil
Who is the king of France before and during the early stages of the revolution?
Louis XVI
In what year does the French Revolution start?
1789
What people made up the first and second estates?
Clergy and Nobility
What is an important result of the scientific revolution?
Confidence develops in the human mind, and a strong sense of individualism develops
Locke supports a government that does what?
Protects the inalienable rights of the people (such as life, liberty, and property)
Who gains power at the end of the Revolution and eventually becomes emperor?
What important event (July 14th, 1789) sparks the beginning of the French Revolution?
The Storming of the Bastille
What's the name of the places we talked about where people congregate to discuss Enlightenment ideas?
Salons
Which process develops at this time (involves the analysis of data, reason, hypothesis, and experimentation)
The Scientific Method
Montesquieu supports a 3 branch system of government, what are the 3 branches?
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial
Who is the wife of King Louis XVI, who would also be executed?
Marie Antoinette
The period from September 1793 to July 1794 when 300,000 people are arrested and 17,000 are executed is called? (Hint - the CPS is in power at this time)
The Reign of Terror
What type of government existed in France before the French Revolution?
Monarchy
What is the heliocentric model?
A model of the solar system with the Sun at the center, rather than Earth.
Diderot writes a very important work that would help spread Enlightenment ideas to America. What was it called?
Encyclopedia
What important figure fights for women's rights during the French Revolution?
Olympe de Gouges
What was a major cause of the French revolution?
Economic problems (War led to taxation, but only on the third estate), Famine, Enlightenment ideas, creation of the American Constitution.
What does William Wilberforce support?
The end of both the slave trade and slavery itself.
Who proposes the Heliocentric model?
Nicolaus Copernicus
Self-interest, Competition, or Supply and Demand
Who is the head of the Committee of Public Safety?
Maximilien Robespierre
What group is created by the third estate and writes the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
National Assembly
Give an example of an Enlightened despot.
Catherine the Great, Frederick II of Prussia, Joseph II of Austria