Enlightenment me!
Off with their heads!
Enlightenment thinkers
French Revolution
The three estates
100
period of time where people came up with new ideas about how they thought life should go.
What is the enlightenment?
100
: a machine for beheading by means of a heavy blade that slides down in vertical guides
What is the guillotine?
100
Came up with the idea of life, liberty and property.
Who is john Locke?
100
The amount of taxes the first two Estates paid to the King.
What is zero?
100
Name the three Estates
What is Clergy,Nobility and the commoners ?
200
: a sudden decisive exercise of force in politics; especially : the violent overthrow or alteration of an existing government by a small group
What is Coup d'etat?
200
The period (1793-1794) of the French Revolution during which thousands of people were executed.
What is The reign of terror?
200
Came up with the idea that the government should not interfere with economic matters
What is Adam smith?
200
This was the radical political party that sat on the left side of the Legislative Assembly.
Who were the Jacobins?
200
what is the main job of the 2nd estate
What is leaders of high government ex. government, military, courts?
300
The belief that the king receives power from god and are responsible only to god.
What is divine right of kings?
300
The person who started the reign of terror and ended it with the death of himself.
Who is Maximilian Robespierre?
300
believed absolute power was needed to preserve order in society.
Who is hobbes?
300
This was the French document modeled on the Declaration of Independence that stated, that all men are created equal, asserted freedom of religion, and that taxes should be assessed on ability to pay.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
300
The estate that the Jacobin's were from.
What is the third estate?
400
an entire society agrees to be govern by it's general will
What is the social contract?
400
Political body of the French Revolution that controlled France during the Reign of Terror
What is committee of public safety?
400
criticized religion
Who is Voltaire?
400
The storming of this prison on July 14, 1789 became the rallying symbol of the French Revolution.
What is Bastille?
400
what percentage of land did the first Estate (the Clergy) own
What is 10%
500
A book by Thomas Paine about rights he felt we should have.
What is the rights of man?
500
the red, white, and blue flag of the revolutionary France
What is Tricolor?
500
Came up with the idea of a social contract where poeple agree to be governed by general will.
Who is rousseau?
500
Maintaining this would be the goal of the Congress of Vienna.
What is the balance of power?
500
Which Estate was vastly divided
What is the third estate?