Philosophy in the Age of Reason
Enlightenment ideas spread
Birth of American Republic
On The Eve of Revolution
The French Revolution unfolds
100
Rules discoverable by reason, govern scientific forces such as gravity and magnetism.
What is Natural Law
100
restricting access to ideas and information
What is censorship
100
imposed taxes on items like newspapers, and pamphlets etc.
What is the stamp act
100
Under this everyone was divided into one of three social classes.
What is Ancien Regime
100
Dissenting groups of people, competing to gain power.
What is factions?
200
Was one of the two, seventeenth-century English thinkers, set forth ideas that were to become key to the Enlightenment.
Who is John locke
200
informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophers, and others exchanged ideas
What are salons
200
states that all the governments power comes from the people
What is popular sovereignty
200
At the top sat the... or middle class.
What is Bourgeoisie
200
On August 4, in a all-night meeting nobles voted to end their own privileges. They all agreed to give up their old manorial dues, hunting rights, legal statuses, and exemption from taxes.
What is National Assembly Acts?
300
rights that belonged to humans from birth
What is natural rights
300
A grand ornate of style of painting
What is baroque
300
power divided between the federal or national, governments and the states
What is the federal republic
300
One of the causes of the economic troubles was a mushrooming financial crisis that was due in part to years.
What is Deficit Spending
300
Further proclaimed that all male citizens were equal before the law.
What is Declaration of the rights of men?
400
an agreement by which people gave up their freedom for an organized society
What is social contract
400
absolute rulers who used there power to bring about political and social change
What are enlightened despots
400
Leader of the American Army, and first President of the United States
Who is George Washington
400
a journalist who demanded equal rights in the declaration of the rights of women and the female citizen.
What is Olympe de Gouges?
500
a shift in political power
What is the glorious
500
exerted extremely tight control over his subjects during his reign
Who is the king of prussia
500
arrived at the constitutional convention in Philadelphia and was the Conventions floor leader.
Who is James Madison
500
The Financial expert Louis XVI chose when he was weak and indecisive.
who was Jacques necker?
500
six thousand women marched 13 miles from Paris to Versailles.
What is Women march of versailles?