Rights and Wrongs
To believe or not to believe
Revolution calling
word power
Misc
100
According to John Locke, these are the rights all people are born having.
What are life, liberty and property
100
William and Mary were allowed to be the King and Queen of England because they agree to practice this form of Christianity rather than the Catholic form
What is Protestant/Anglican
100
This fortress in Paris stored weapons used by the third estate to battle the Kings army
What is the Bastille
100
The battle cry of the French revolution could be summed up in these three words
What is Liberty, equality, fraternity
100
This age was considered a period when people used the power of logic and questioning to fight against the social order.
What is the Enlightenment
200
This idea claims that God grants power through the Catholic church to certain people to rule as king and queens.
What is Divine Right?
200
This person believed that a government that was not made up of consenting citizens who supported natural rights should be overthrown
Who was John Locke
200
This Glorious document gave religious freedom to the people of England and power to the Parliament to vote on whether or not to raise taxes and for what purpose.
What is the English Bill of Rights
200
The words written in this French Revolution document would guarantee equality to the men of France
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen?
200
Another term for the middle class in France who gained power as a result of the revolution
What is the Bourgeiose
300
This refers to the amount of power a monarch has when granted divine right
What is unlimited or Absolute power
300
This Reign of Terror leader believed that any person who felt sympathy for the death of the French Monarchy should be killed.
Who was Maxmillian Robespierre
300
This document from the 1200's was among one of the first to limit the power of kings in England and grant power to the nobility to form a Parliament.
What is the Magna Carta
300
Napoleon promised the following to the people of France if he was allowed to be their emperor. This would be the basis of the Napoleonic Code
What is economic reform and natural rights
300
When people are unhappy with political and economic conditions they sometimes engage in ________________ to create change.
What is Revolution
400
This term refers to the ancient custom in China similar to divine right in determining which emperor or dynasty could be in power.
What is Mandate of Heaven
400
This French Revolution leader believed it necessary to take over all of Europe in order to safeguard the French Republic form monarchs around the continent.
Who was Napoleon Bonaparte
400
Napoleon met his fate in this north eastern European nation when his soldiers died of starvation and cold.
What is Russia
400
Members of the national assembly took this vow to create a new constitution after the King shut them out of the meeting of the three estates.
What is the Tennis Court Oath
400
The French Revolution was inspired by these types of rights.
What are Natural Rights
500
These terms refer to the types of governments that usually develop as a result of the belief in natural rights.
What is a democracy or republic
500
This group of French people believed that the system of taxation was unfair since the two social classes above them didn't have to pay taxes.
What is the Third Estate
500
This was the name of Robespierre's political party
What is the Jacobins
500
This killing machine of the Reign of Terror would be "painless and quick" according to the Jacobins.
What is the Guillotine
500
Before the French Revolution could truly take hold this king was sent to his death
Who was King Louis 16