French Revolution Whodunnit?
Timeline of French Revolution
Enlightenment Thinkers
Enlightenment? What is it?
Scientific Revolution
100

These people were poor and often hungry

What is the Third Estate

100

What is Royal family forced to leave Versailles by mob of women demanding bread

What is October 4, 1789,

100

believed in a Creator God, they just had a remote view of Him. 

Who are Deists?

100

The brightest intellectual minds of the day 

used to gather in the evenings at the houses 

of wealthy people. 

Who are the Enlightenment Thinkers or philosophers

100

 largely regarded today as the first modern chemist, and therefore one of the founders of modern chemistry, and one of the pioneers of modern experimental scientific method.

Who was Robert Boyle

200

On top of the Estate System, France had a supreme leader in the king:

What is an absolute monarch

200

What is Reign of Terror begins

What is 1793 September 5

200

An English philosopher who lived from 1588-1679. He wrote The Leviathan.

Who was Thomas Hobbes

200

In the 18th century, nearly a century after 

the Scientific Revolution.

 When did the Enlightenment occur?

200

 published in France between 1751 and 1772, with later supplements, revised editions, and translations. It had many writers

What is the Encylopedia

300

French document compares to the American Declaration of Independence?

What is Declaration of Rights of man and citizen

300

King Louis XVI calls a meeting of the Estates General

What is 4-5 May 1789

300

another English philosopher who lived from 1632-1704, and wrote Two Treatises on Government. 

Who was John Locke

300

God-given right to rule. God had placed these 

specific monarchs on the throne. 

What is Divine Right

300

As an enthusiastic patron of the arts and sciences, a gifted musician and a correspondent with the top minds of the Enlightenment,

Who was Frederick II
400

Marie Antoinette

Who was the Queen of France at the start of the French Revolution?

400

Tennis Court Oath

What is 20 June 1789

400

He was a French noble who lived from 1689-

1755 and wrote The Spirit of the Laws. 

Who was Montesquieu

400

There was no freedom of religion, and attacks 

on religious minorities were still common. 

Why was the religious situation in Europe 

still volatile? 

400

an English chemist, natural philosopher, separatist theologian, grammarian, multi-subject educator, and liberal political theorist who published over 150 works. He has historically been credited with the discovery of oxygen,[5] having isolated it in its gaseous state

Who was Joseph Preistly

500

The French Revolution came to an end when this famous military leader came to power.

Who is Napoleon Bonaparte

500

The Storming of the Bastille

What is 14 July 1789

500

a French philosopher who lived from 1712-1778 and wrote The Social Contract. 

Who was Rousseau

500

That society would ultimately become enlightened through the use of reason, and through the progress reason offered. 

What was the promise of the Enlightenment? 

500

Holy Roman emperor from 1790 to 1792, one of the most capable of the 18th-century reformist rulers known as the “enlightened despots.”

Who was Leopold II