Enlightenment
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French Revolution
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French Revolution
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French Revolution
People
100
Philosophical movement in the 18th century characterized by individual reason and political innovation
What is Enlightenment
100
English enlightenment philosophe who stated that men have 3 natural rights; Life, Liberty, and Property. A government should provide these rights, as well as peace and security, and create laws for the greater good
Who was John Locke
100
This is the term for the 3 social classes of the Old Regime in France
What is an Estate
100
The peasants stormed this castle-prison to find weapons
What is the Bastille
100
French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat
Who was Robespierre
200
Founding Principle of Common Power: Rulers provide order and stability while the people give up their right to self-govern
What is Social Contract
200
English enlightened philosophe that emphasized that all men are created equal, but quarrel as a result of competition, diffidence, and glory. He also stated that a government should represent its society and provide unity, peace and defense.
Who was Thomas Hobbes
200
This is the French middle class that helped fuel the revolution
What is the Bourgeoisie
200
This event showed the most Enlightenemnt ideas
What is the Tennis Court Oath
200
the leader of the National Guard, a largely middle-class militia; fought alongside George Washington in the American Revolution
Who was the Marquise de Lafayette
300
Natural and legal rights are two types of rights: legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system, while natural rights are those not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable. ...
What is natural rights
300
This Philosophe believed government should have separation of powers
Who was Montesquieu
300
This estate paid almost all the taxes in the Old Regime
What is the Third Estate (The Peasantry)
300
Foreign monarchs feared this about the French Revolution
What is that the ideas would spread to their kingdoms
300
Austrian-born queen of France; Louis XVI’s wife
Who was Marie Antionette
400
According to John Locke, this is the best form of government
What is Democracy
400
Principal author of the Declaration of Independence and one of the founding fathers; he furthered John Locke's 3 natural rights of Life, Liberty, and Property by replacing Property with the Pursuit of Happiness.
Who was Thomas Jefferson
400
Delegates from the 1st Estate broke away to form this in 1789
What is the National Assembly
400
a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed during the French Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror
400
working-class men and women who made the French Revolution more radical
What is a Sans Coulottes
500
These are rules that are discoverable by reason
What is natural law
500
This man created he encyclopedia
Who was Diderot
500
a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. ...
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man
500
a person who flees his or her country for political reasons
What is a émigré
500
Five elected officials that replaced the National Assembly
What is the Directory
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