This is the idea that all events, including human action, are predetermined.
What is determinism?
Martin Luther wrote this many theses.
What is 95?
This was the catchphrase of the colonies during the period of resistance before the Revolution.
What is, "no taxation without representation?"
What is "absolute?"
What was the fate of King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette?
This is a social theory favoring freedom of action for individuals over collective or state control.
What is individualism?
Which of the following was a theme of the Enlightenment?
Reason
Skepticism
Individualism
All of the above
What is "all of the above?"
This was an Intolerable Act which required colonial authorities to provide shelter and supplies to British solders.
What is the Quartering Act?
This is the French legislative body which advised the king. The assembly was made up of three French classes, known as Estates: nobility, clergy, and commoners.
What is the Estates General?
This extremist group seized the National Convention and instituted radical measures (i.e. the eradication of Christianity).
Who are the Jacobins?
Nearly as old as philosophy itself, this is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live.
What is Social Contract Theory?
Which Enlightenment thinker famously said, "I think, therefore I am?"
Who is Descartes?
A group of delegates from the American colonies met to discuss their grievances in 1774 at this event.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Emmanuel Sieyes’ political pamphlet, titled ____, was written as a response to an invitation for writers to share their thoughts on how the general assembly should be organized
"What is the Third Estate?"
This French general led the army to silence the Jacobins.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
In what book did Thomas Hobbes write about the realities of social contract theory?
What is The Leviathan?
What two economic and/or political models best illustrate individualism?
What are laissez faire capitalism and classical liberalism?
On this day, the Continental Congress voted to adopt the Declaration of Independence, drafted by a five-man committee.
What is July 4, 1776?
What are three reasons for France's bankruptcy preceding the Revolution?
King's spending habits
draught/ natural disaster
involvement in American Revolution
What were each of the Three Estates made of?
1= clergy
2=nobility
3=commoners
Name four principles of individualism.
Self-reliance
Private ownership
Economic freedom
Individual rights and freedoms
Competition
Self-interest
Liberal values: freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom of religion, freedom of association, and the right to vote
What did Mary Wollstonecraft's most famous literary work argue for?
What is a women's right to education?
What river is George Washington crossing in Emanuel Leutze's famous painting?
What is the Delaware?
Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen proclaimed the Assembly’s commitment to replace the ancien régime with a system based on these four principles.
equal opportunity,
freedom of speech,
popular sovereignty
and representative government.
Who said, “When the people shall have nothing more to eat, they will eat the rich?"
Rousseau