French Revolution 1
French government was divided into 3 of these large social classes.
What are Estates?
(Triple Score) Nobles and others who fled France and hoped to undo the Revolution.
What were Emigres?
(Triple Score) Claimed that all men are born and remain free and equal in rights.
What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man?
(Triple Score) Took ideas and helped craft our own Enlightenment- known as the American Enlightenment- in writing the United States Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
(DBL Score) Doctrines that are generally characterized by the idea that all humans are equal in fundamental worth or moral status.
What is Egalitarianism?
(DBL Score) Radical revolutionaries led by Jean-Paul Marat and Robespierre.
What was the Jacobins Club?
(DBL Score) The nickname for the Guillotine.
What was the National Razor?
The common people and only Estate that paid taxes.
What was the 3rd Estate?
Wrote the book Leviathan which explained the theory of social contract.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
(DBL Score) His theory of the separation of powers had an enormous impact on liberal political theory, and on the framers of the constitution of the United States of America.
Who is Charles de Montesquieu?
(DBL Score) Parisian workers & shop keepers that wanted the Revolution to bring greater changes to France.
What are Sans-culottes?
(DBL Score) Machine used to behead people.
What is the Guillotine?
(DBL Score) Jacobin leader that took control of the French Revolution and led the Reign of Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
What was Social Contract?
(DBL Score) Father of liberalism that defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal against claims that God had made all people naturally subject to a monarch.
Who is John Locke?
The Third Estate’s pledge to draw up a new constitution.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
A wave of senseless panic led by peasants armed with pitchforks, knives & axes.
What was the Great Fear?
King of France during the French Revolution, beheaded by the French people.
Who is Louis XVI?
Wrote 'Common Sense' a clear and persuasive prose where he marshaled moral and political arguments to encourage common people in the Colonies to fight for egalitarian government.
Who was Thomas Paine?
a french enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher who attacked the Catholic Church and advocated freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.
Who is Voltaire?
The Third Estate formed this to pass laws & reforms for the French people.
What is the National Assembly?
Led by Robespierre, thousands of French were beheaded.
What was the Reign of Terror?
Queen of France during the French Revolution, beheaded by the French people.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
Age of Reason, an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.
What was the Enlightenment?
These Were a major cause of the Age of Enlightenment.
What are Tyrannical Monarchies?