Types of Governments
Other Revolutions
The Enlightenment (Age of Reason)
Napoleon
French Revolution
100

Government by the people

What is democracy?

100

Enlightenment ideas and ideals inspired these revolutions. Name 1.

What are the American, French, Haitian, Latin American, and European (1830 and 1848) revolutions?

100

Inalienable rights, including life, liberty, and property (or pursuit of happiness), that John Locke (and Thomas Jefferson) advocated for.

What are natural rights?

100
This person crowned Napoleon.
Who is Napoleon (or he crowned himself).
100
The only French estate (or class) to pay taxes.
What is the Third Estate?
200

Another name for king or queen where power is inherited through the family line.

What is monarchy?

200

This was one of the main ingredients of the American Revolution that led to the Boston Tea Party.

What are taxes (without representation)?

200

Ideas (incorporated into our Constitution) advocated by Baron de Montesquieu that would limit the power of government.

What are the "separation of powers" (i.e. 3 branches) and "checks and balances"?

200

Napoleon invaded this country because they were not following his Continental System.


Who is Russia?


200
The Three Estates that existed in France prior to its 1789 revolution.
What are the First (clergy), Second (nobility), and Third (everyone else) Estates?
300
A system where there is no government.

What is anarchy?

300

This group of society were the revolutionaries in most revolutions.

Who are the peasants or workers?

300

The First Amendment freedom that Voltaire argued in favor of.

What is free speech?

300

This was Napoleon's fate (twice).

What is he was exiled? (to Elba and St. Helena)

300
A French legislative body called by Louis XVI that included all three French Estates. It was not interested in an overhaul of the French social, economic, and political systems.
What is the Estates General?
400

The exercise of complete and unrestricted power in government.

What is totalitarianism?

400
A change in this was the goal of the Russian Revolution.

What is type of government?

400

Says that people are the source of government power

Who is John Locke?

400
This is a unique cultural identity of a people based on a common language, religion, and national symbols.
What is nationalism?
400
The French radical Maximilien Robespierre ordered thousands of executions (mostly by guillotine) literally causing the streets to run red with blood during this "reign." Ironically, he too was executed by guillotine.
What is the Reign of Terror?
500

The doctrine that kings and queens have a God-given right to rule and that rebellion against them is a sin. This belief was common through the seventeenth century and was urged by such kings as Louis XIV of France.

What is divine right?

500

He is remembered today as the greatest leader of South American independence.

Who is Simon Bolivar?

500

This French philosopher argued that the power of government comes from the consent of the governed (popular sovereignty) based on a social contract between people and governments.

Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?

500

This is what Napoleon's powerful centralized administrative machine based promotion on.

What is ability, not on birth or nobility?

500

Many of the rights in the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizens were included in this US document.

 

What is the Bill of Rights?

M
e
n
u