France and Revolution
Governments
Enlightened Philosophy
Music & Arts of the Enlightenment
Folks and Faces
100
He crowned himself Emperor in 1802.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte?
100
Philip II, Louis XIV and Catherine the Great were all examples of this kind of ruler.
What is an absolute monarch?
100
He believed that people were basically selfish and ignorant and without absolute monarchs would lead lives that would be 'short, nasty and brutish'.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
100
Prior to the Enlightenment, much of the music created was for this.
What was church or choral music?
100
American statesman who drafted the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
200
Louis XIV's summer home became his ginormous palace here.
What is Versailles?
200
A government whose power is defined and limited by law.
What is a constitutional government?
200
The Philosophies met in these places to discuss events and develop their enlightenment ideas.
What were salons?
200
Form of art that featured saints and famous battles and was rich in detail and very ornate.
What is baroque?
200
English king who ruled during American Revolution.
Who was King George the III?
300
This period of the revolution was when people were arrested for not supporting the revolution and many were executed.
What was the Reign of Terror?
300
The United States established this new type of government in which power is divided between the national government and the states.
What is a federal republic?
300
Adam Smith's book, 'The Wealth of Nations', indicated that governments should not interfere with markets after this policy.
What is laissez-faire?
300
Austrian composer who challenged conventional ideas of music.
Who was Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart?
300
French philosophie who supported freedom of speech.
Who was Voltaire?
400
Louis XVI ignored the national economic problems by using money France did not have, an example of this.
What is deficit spending?
400
The four nations that formed the Quadruple Alliance in response to Napoleon's aggression.
Who were Prussia, England, Austria, and Russia?
400
He proposed a government based on natural rights or people and an acknowledgement that people have an obligation to overthrow a government that does not meet their needs.
Who was John Locke?
400
This French king surrounded himself in baroque style paintings and spent great amounts of money to adorn his palace in Versaille.
Who was Louis XIV?
400
American political activist prior to and during the American revolution who authored the pro-independence pamphlet 'Common Sense'.
Who was Thomas Paine?
500
The Russians utilized this tactic of destroying their own crops before Napoleon's forces could benefit from newly acquired territory.
What is a scorched-earth tactic?
500
This was a series of treaties that ended the Thirty Years Wars.
What was the Peace of Westphalia?
500
English author who wrote about the equality of women and men.
Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?
500
A major change in art during the Enlightenment saw the change from baroque to this.
What is rococo?
500
Prussian 'enlightened' despot who tried to be more modern by cutting down on torture.
Who was Frederick the Great?