Dividing the various functions and powers of government.
Extra 100 if you name the Enlightenment Philosopher who believed in this
Separation of Powers
Baron De Montesquieu
The time period where people were arrested and executed for not supporting the Revolution.
Extra 100 if you name the leader of this time period
Reign of Terror
Maximillian Robespierre
King of England who fought with Parliament and was beheaded.
Charles 1
The forcible overthrow of a government.
Coup D'etat
Enlightenment philosopher who believed in the Natural Rights of man.
John Locke
King of France whose ineptitude was partially responsible for the French Revolution.
King Louis XVI (16th)
What was so glorious about the Glorious Revolution?
There was no bloodshed
Defeated invading French forces and won independence for Haiti.
Jean-Jacques Dessalines
A contract between people in order to form an organized society.
Social Contract
Which of the 3 estates in French Society paid the most in taxes?
What was the main issue that King Charles I & Parliament argued over?
Money (Power to Tax)
What did the people of France storm, one of the iconic moments of the French Revolution?
The Bastille
Enlightenment Philosopher who believed life was "Nasty, Brutish & Short"
Thomas Hobbes
What was the Enlightenment inspired document written by the French people that helped to inspire the French Revolution?
The Declaration of the Rights of Man
The authority for a king to rule comes directly from God is known as
The Divine Right of Kings
Where were the final 2 places that Napoleon was defeated?
Russia & Waterloo
Enlightenment philosopher who believed Women should have the same protection to their Natural Rights as Men
Mary Wollstonecraft
Napoleon created this set of Enlightenment inspired "Laws" that had influence in every part of the World that he conquered
The Napoleonic Codes
After the English Civil War & Glorious Revolution, what did Englands Monarchy turn in to?
A Constitutional Monarchy
The ceremony that started the rebellion against enslavement in Haiti
Bois Caiman