French Revolution
Timeline during which 40,000 French people were executed.
Reign of Terror
Willing to change tradition. Favoring individual political and economic freedom, with limits on state power
Liberal
What you say to someone who gives you something or does something nice for you.
Thank you.
Rights that are important for every human being to have (religion, speech, live where you want)
Natural Rights
A country
Nation-state
French version of the Declaration of Independence.
Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
More likely to keep tradition.
Conservative
Who teaches your World History class?
Mr. Thompson
Imaginary contract that explains the purpose of government; loyalty for safety.
Social contract
Rights that are important for every human being to have (religion, speech, live where you want)
Natural rights
Social classes prior to the French Revolution
Estates
Want change and they want it fast.
Radical
Pride and devotion to one’s nation; also, the idea that a people with a common language, culture, and history should have its own nation-state
Nationalism
Writer who stressed equality for women in political and social rights.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Designed to prevent any one person from controlling a country (executive, legislative, and judicial)
Separation of powers
Designed to prevent any one person from controlling a country (executive, legislative, and judicial)
Separation of Powers
Wanting to go back to the way things were.
Reactionary
The shared beliefs, practices, and traditions of a group
Culture
Time period about 200 years ago that emphasized reason and logic to solve society's problems.
The Enlightenment
The modernization of Japan during the 1800s
Meiji Restoration