Misc
What is Mrs. Dawson Favorite football team?
The Philadelphia EAGLES
A transformational time period in which we challenged traditional beliefs and pursued scientific research through testing and experimentation.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
This Enlightenment philosopher believed that all people are born with "natural rights," which included the right to life, liberty, and property. His ideas had a significant impact on the American Revolution and how we think about human rights today.
Who is John Locke?
This cultural and intellectual movement, focused on reason, individualism, equality, and liberty, explains (in part) why American colonists rebelled against British rule for independence during the American Revolution.
What is the Enlightenment?
This was the radical phase of the French Revolution, where people were publicly executed for political reasons. During this period, people feared persecution from secret spies.
What is the Reign of Terror?
What street name is this school located?
Home Street
Inspired by the Enlightenment ideas, this document protects people’s rights and freedoms and describes how the U.S. government functions.
What is the U.S. Constitution?
This Enlightenment philosopher supported women’s rights and equality. She was particularly focused on women’s education and economic independence.
Who is Wollstonecraft?
This invention, in part, explains why it was upper-middle class people who often led the American and French Revolutions.
What is the printing press?
The form of government France had both before and after the French Revolution.
What is an absolute monarchy/republic?
Name the 7 continents
Asia, Africa, N. America, S. America, Antarctica, Europe and Australia
The form of government that would have been most criticized by Enlightenment philosophers.
What is absolutism/absolute monarchy?
This Enlightenment philosopher supported the rights of the criminally accused. He opposed torture and the death penalty, and impacted legal system by making it more focused on justice and humanity.
Who is Beccaria?
One of the four characteristics of a revolution, this refers to people with wealth, power, and education who challenge the existing political, social, and economic norms.
Who are dissident elites?
In this social class system, 97% of French citizens paid 50% of their income in taxes. As a result of the French Revolution, this system was abolished.
What is the Old Regime/Three Estates?
Where the the state of NY located
North East
List at least 3 Enlightenment ideals.
What is reason, individualism, progress, secularism, fairness, equality, liberty, freedom, etc.?
This Enlightenment philosopher believed in the separation of powers, which greatly influenced the formation of modern democratic governments.
Who is Montesquieu?
One of the four characteristics of a revolution, this refers to problems with government. Often, it refers to the situation where a government fails to meet the needs of its people.
What are state crises?
In the 1800s, following the French Revolution, this democratic form of government started spreading around the world. This is a form of government in which political authority comes from the people through elected representatives.
What is a republic?
What is the capital of Japan
Tokyo
The Enlightenment idea that people give consent to the government, and the government agrees to protect people’s rights. During the American and French Revolutions, people believed that their governments had broken this.
What is the social contract?
One of the Enlightenment ideas was that effective governments should have 3 branches as a form of checks and balances. What are the 3 branches of the U.S. government, and what role does each branch have?
What is the executive/legislative/judicial branch?
One of the four characteristics of a revolution, this refers to when people from different social classes come together to rebel against their government for a common cause.
What is shared motivation?
This document, birthed from the American Revolution, inspired French citizens to rebel against their government in the French Revolution.
What is the Declaration of Independence?