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Absolutism
100
This Enlightenment thinker is famous world-wide for developing social contract theory.
What is Thomas Hobbes.
100
The spread of ideas of progress and the betterment of society is a result of this philosophical movement.
What is Enlightenment?
100
This Cause of the French Revolution was shared with the American Revolution
What is high/unfair taxes?
100
The main instrument of execution used during the Reign of Terror
What is guillotine
100
This was Louis XIV's giant palace.
What is the palace of Versailles
200
This person wrote against intolerance and social inequality.
What is Voltaire?
200
The Enlightenment period inspired people in the lower classes to think in terms of this.
What is individual wants and needs.
200
This cause of the Revolution was thanks to irresponsible spending by King Louis XVI on things such as wars and his Royal Court
What is Debt/bankruptcy
200
Leader of the Haitian revolution
Who was Touissant Louverture?
200
In a typical royal predicament this ruler was only 5 when he inherited the throne
Who is Louis XIV
300
Came up with the idea of dividing government power between separate branches.
What is Baron de Montesquieu?
300
The US government was created using this principle of power distribution.
What is Montesquieu's theory that government should be divided into separate branches.
300
Ideas like these 2 from the Enlightenment surely contributed to the idea of revolution
What is natural rights; freedom of speech
300
A highlight of the Reign of Terror was the execution of this hated royal woman
What is Marie Antoinette
300
Louis XIV is famous for this statement
What is I am the state
400
This Enlightenment thinker believed that people are born good but society corrupts them
What is Rousseau?
400
This theory states that government gains their power through the consent of the governed.
What is social contract theory?
400
What was the largest Estate in France?
What is 3rd Estate
400
This group came together after Napoleon's exile and restored this type of government back to Europe...just as it had been before the French Revolution
What is the Congress of Vienna
400
Power deriving from God
What is Divine Right Theory
500
This man insisted that man is born with three inherent rights: life, liberty, and property.
What is John Locke?
500
The people have the right to overthrow the government if these three rights are not protected.
What is life, liberty, and property?
500
The rolling of this man's head signaled the end of the terrifying times
Who is Who is Robespierre
500
Part 1: These were the steps taken by Napoleon to restore order to France following his ascension to power. These actions allowed for the French people to trust that he had their best interests at heart. Part 2: These were the steps taken by Napoleon once he had achieved power that showed he was not a true supporter of limited government as he had once delcared.
What is What is: schools, government. finances, laws limit of freedom of speech and freedom of press; restoration of the nobility
500
Time period in which citizens started to realize divine right rulers were wrong about their ideas on government
What is the Enlightenment