These people ruled with total power, believing all authority came directly from God.
What is an absolute monarch?
This era is also known as the “Age of Reason.”
What is the Enlightenment?
Before the Revolution, France’s population was divided into these three social groups.
What are the three estates?
This period of violence was meant to protect the Revolution but led to mass executions.
What is the Reign of Terror?
This law code created by Napoleon guaranteed equality before the law but reduced women’s rights.
What is the Napoleonic Code?
This belief justified a ruler’s authority by saying power came from God, not the people.
What is divine right?
He believed that people have natural rights to life, liberty, and property.
Who was John Locke?
The unfair voting system in this assembly allowed the First and Second Estates to outvote the Third.
What is the Estates-General?
This invention became a symbol of the Reign of Terror for its efficiency in executions.
What is the guillotine?
Napoleon tried to weaken Britain’s economy by creating this trade blockade.
What is the Continental System?
He declared, “I am the state,” showing that he and France were one and the same.
Who is King Louis XIV?
Although the Enlightenment promoted equality and reason, these groups were often left out of its promises.
Who are women, poor people, people of color, enslaved people?
Citizens stormed this Paris prison on July 14, 1789, marking the start of the Revolution.
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
The irony of the Reign of Terror
What is France fought years for liberty while using violence and censorship to control its people?
This campaign failed because of harsh winters and massive troop losses.
What was Napoleon’s invasion of Russia?
This palace, built by Louis XIV, symbolized royal power and control over the nobles.
What is Versailles?
This major effect of the Enlightenment encouraged people to question authority and demand governments based on rights and reason.
What are revolutions?
Members of the Third Estate swore this oath to create a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
He led the Committee of Public Safety and was later executed himself.
Who is Robespierre?
After his defeat, European leaders met at this conference to restore monarchies and balance power.
What was the Congress of Vienna?
The execution of this monarch marked the symbolic end of absolutism in France.
Who is King Louis XVI?
He argued that government power should be divided among branches to prevent tyranny.
Who is Montesquieu?
This document, inspired by Enlightenment ideas, declared that “men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen?
Three reasons the Reign of Terror was or was not justified.
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Three reasons Napoleon was a hero or a tyrant.
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