Enlightenment
Being the same in status, rights, and opportunities
Equality
This document was full of Enlightenment Ideas and was the justification for America's split from Britain
The Declaration of Independence
The King and Queen of France before the French Revolution
King Louis XVI (16th) and Marie Antoinette
On July 14, this prison was captured by the people. The symbolic start to the Revolution.
The Storming of the Bastille
Francis Bacon invented this.
The Scientific Method
Giving up certain rights (murder/steal) so the government can protect natural rights
Social Contract
Laid out the roles, rules, and procedures of the United States government
The US Constitution
Problems facing France before the Revolution
Growing population and growing national debt: Economic depression, unemployment, and high food prices
The name of the political party in the National Assembly that desired violence against the nobility of France.
Jacobin Club
The red cap worn by revolutionaries
Phrygian Cap
Wrote Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings (1651)
Saw humanity in a “state of nature” as free, but barbaric and violent
In order to be protected from each other, all people agree to a “social contract” with their ruler
Thomas Hobbes
Written by James Madison, these enshrined the protection of individual liberties and limited the power of the federal government
The Bill of Rights (10 Amendments)
The name of the French government, a relic from the Feudal System
The Estates-General
7,000 angry French women stormed the King's palace and took the royal family back to Paris as hostages
The most important scientist of the Scientific Revolution (the three laws of motion, universal gravitation, planetary motion, tides, comets, equinoxes, and solidified heliocentrism)
Sir Isaac Newton
The authority of the government is created and sustained by the people that support it / “power to the people”
Popular Sovereignty
Encouraged her husband to "remember the ladies" when writing the Declaration of Independence
Abigail Adams
The First Estate in the Estates-General was occupied by
Clergy, Catholic bishops, priest, monks
The Leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror
Maximilien Robespierre
What Marie Antoinette probably didn't say when 7,000 angry French women arrived in Versailles.
Let them eat cake
Believed in “natural rights” such as “life, liberty, and property” that could never be given away
If the social contract is broken then the people have a right to revolt against their ruler
John Locke
A government divided into three branches (Legislative, Executive, Judicial)
Checks and Balances / Separation of Powers
The Estates-General was unfair because...
Clergy and Nobles (First and Second Estates) forced the common people (Third Estate) to pay unfair taxes
The journalist who spread propaganda about the royal family to anger the people of France. Was murdered in his bathtub.
Jean-Paul Marat
The name of the French goddess of Liberty