I am the King and I have this, the right to rule given to me by God.
What is the divine right of kings?
100
This person believed that humans are naturally selfish and wicked.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
We made up about 97% of the population of France during the time of the French Revolution.
What is the Third estate?
100
I inherited a huge debt, spent loads of money helping the Americans fight the British and the banks wont loan me another franc.
Who is Louis XVI?
100
The people of Paris stormed the Bastille in search of gunpowder. The significance of this event is this.
What is a great symbolic act of the revolution?
200
John Lock Believed in these three natural rights.
What are life, liberty, and property?
200
He believed that government should be divided into branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
We owned 10% of the land in France and provided education and relief services to the poor. We also paid 2% of our income to the government.
What is the First Estate or clergy?
200
Lois XVI called this meeting. It was the first one in 175 years.
What is the Estates General?
200
A famous document written by the National Assembly.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of man?
300
Montesquieu believed that government should be divided into this many branches.
What is three?
300
He stood for freedom of thought, speech, and expression.
Who is Voltaire?
300
We owned 20% of the land even though we were only 2% of the population and we paid no taxes.
What is The Second Estate or nobility?
300
According to the rules of the meeting of the Estates General each estate had this many votes.
What is one?
300
A time when peasants murdered nobles and burnt down their mansions.
What is The Great Fear?
400
Locke thought that the only job of government is to this.
What is protect peoples rights?
400
There are three natural rights says he.
Who is Locke?
400
People in these professions (name) were part of the middle class or bourgeoisie.
What are bankers, factory owners, merchants, professionals, and skilled artisans?
400
The Third Estate demanded to have the rules changed so the each of these would have one vote. This would give the Third Estate the advantage because they had the most delegates.
What are delegates?
400
The leader of the Jacobins.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
If the government failed to do its job Locke believed that people should do this.
What is overthrow the government?
500
He said "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains" and he wrote the book, The Social Contract.
Who is Rousseau?
500
The Third Estate formed the National Assembly, called for the end of absolute monarchy, and made the Tennis Court Oath which was a pledge to do this.