Enlightenment
Many of the ideas of the Enlightenment were spread in the ____ of Paris (hint: women helped out...)
salons
Believed that all men are born with inherent rights: Life, Liberty, Property
John Locke
Fundamental documents of the French Revolution, defining a set of individual rights and collective rights of all of the estates as one. Influenced by the doctrine of natural rights
Declaration of Rights of Man and the Citizen
King and Queen that were beheaded during French Revolution
Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette
Three ideals of the French Revolution
Liberty, Equality, and Fraternity
This person argued that at the middle of all things lies the sun, not the earth. This became known as the heliocentric theory
Copernicus
This thinker made a long study of laws and governments. He thought the government power should be separated into different branches so that they could prevent each branch from abusing power.
Separation of Powers in government
Baron de Montesquieu
No taxation without representation.
American Revolution
Jean Paul Marat
Group that made up the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Estates during the French Revolution.
1=Clergy
2=Nobles
3=Bourgeoisie and Sans Cullottes
The political principle that the authority of the state and its government are created and sustained by the consent of its people, through their elected representatives who are the source of all power. (Hint, the answer is not the social contract)
Popular sovereignty
The creator is a watchmaker who makes a watch but does not interfere in its day-to-day workings.
Deism
Believed in freedom of speech and freedom of religion (believed it more like freedom from religion)
Voltaire
Three causes of French Revolution
Unfair Taxation/War
Debt/Bankruptcy
Lack of Food
Lack of Representation/3 Estates
Leader of the Committee of Public Safety and the Reign of Terror in French Revolution
Maximilien Robespierre
European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers; they challenged ideas about government
Enlightenment
This thinker wrote strongly in favor of human freedom. He wanted a society in which all people were equal. He spoke of direct democracy and the social contract.
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Laissez-faire economics
Adam Smith
2 ways that the American Revolution may have led to the French Revolution
French helped out American colonies during the American Revolution so they were financially in trouble.
Americans were successful, could have inspired the bourgeoisie that they could also be successful
The French modeled their Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen after the Declaration of Independence. Included things like equality of all men, rights of individuals, etc.
Fan boy of John Locke, so much so that he quoted him
Thomas Jefferson
The year that that the French Revolution began
1789
Mary Wollstonecraft wrote what book?
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
"Man is born free but everywhere in chains."
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The French General who helped the Americans
Marquis de Lafayette
This American published a 47-page pamphlet written in 1775–1776 advocating independence from Great Britain to people in the Thirteen Colonies.
Thomas Paine
The year that the declaration of independence was created.
1776