Enlightened Absolutism and
the Origins of the French
Revolution
the Origins of the French
Revolution
Scottish economist who authored "The Wealth of Nations".
Who is Adam Smith?
It was a statement outlining the foundations of a new government, closely modeled on parts of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the 'Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen'?
Revolutionary Civil Code that was implemented by Napoleon.
What is Napoleonic Code or The Civil Code?
Leader of the Industrial Revolution.
What is Britain?
Philosophers and authors of the Communist Manifesto.
Who are Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels?
The representatives of the different classes of French Society.
What is the Estates General?
Those without knee pants.
Who are the sans-culottes?
Austria, Britain, Prussia, and Russia all met to negotiate peace and redraw the maps of Europe as a result of the French Revolution.
What is The Congress of Vienna?
Minimal government interaction with economic affairs.
What is Laissez faire
This protest was started by Parisian journalists and typesetters, turning into a revolution that exiled the king.
What is The July Revolution?
The traditional social and political system of France before the French Revolution.
What is the Old Regime or Ancien Régime?
Leader during the French Revolution who was later executed for his role in the Terror.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
Napoleon's last defeat was this battle.
What is the Battle of Waterloo?
The new middle class that came to be as a result of Industrial Capitalism.
Who is the Bourgeoisie?
Captured the essence of the German people through fairy tales.
Who are the Grimm Brothers
Monarchs who utilize ideas of the Enlightenment in how they rule. (Ex. Fredrick the Great, Catherine the Great, or Maria Theresa of Austria)
What is an Enlightened Absolutism or Enlightened Sovereign
March caused by high bread prices.
What is the Women's March to Versailles?
The naval battle between the British Royal Navy and French forces. Ended in British victory.
What is the Battle of Trafalgar
A group of British weavers threatening to smash machinery in response to the Industrial Revolution.
Who are the Luddites?
European crop failure caused a food crisis.
What is the 'Hungry Forties'?
Parliament invited William of Orange and Mary to come to England to replace the current monarchy.
What is the Glorious Revolution?
He was a politician and journalist during the French Revolution. He was a defender of the Sans-Culottes.
Who is Jean Paul Marat?
The location of Napoleons first exile.
What is the Island of Elba?
A system where the government provided payments to poor people, supplementing their income.
What is the Speenhamland System?
These three major countries avoided the revolutionary wave that swept across Europe.
What are Britain, Russia, and Spain?