English Revolution and Enlightenment
Enlightenment:
American Revolution:
Napoleon & French Revolution
American and French Revolution compared
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What political change resulted from the events below?
English Civil War>England's Glorious Revolution>Adoption of the English Bill of Rights
England Established a constitutional monarchy
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Who was the philosopher that promoted toleration and freedom of speech?
Voltaire
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The writers of the U.S. Constitution created a government that is divided into three branches. Which constitutional principle does this reflect?
Separation of powers
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What document most directly influenced the writers of the Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789?
Declaration of Independence
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The American revolutionaries fought to gain independence from a colonial power, while the French revolutionaries revolted in order to
replace the existing _____political_______ and ____social____________ order.
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The legal precedent established in England after King John signed the Magna Carta was that no leader may be _________ the ________ of the land.
above__ _law____
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Montesquieu’s ideas influenced early leaders of the US by creating a government that had __
__a separation of powers_______________
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What was Thomas Jefferson's reason for writing the Declaration of Independence?
To justify separation from Great Britain
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What most contributed to the start of the French Revolution?
Rise of middle class that lacked political representation in government
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One way that France and the American colonies differed at the onset of their revolutions was that France
France suffered more severe ___economic___________ problems than the __American________ colonist.
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According to Thomas Hobbes, the social contract involved an exchange of rights for his idea of having a the stability of a ___ ___ government.
strong_______ ____central_______
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The Enlightenment philosophers inspired later political revolutions because of their support for _
_NATURAL__ rights
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A major contributing factor to the start of an independence movement in the American colonies was
the __lack_______ of representation of the __colonist_________ in the British ___parliament______
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The European response to the rise and fall of Napoleon’s empire helped to spread the idea of ?
Nationalism
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One similar result of the American and French Revolutions was that in both countries the
___citizens________ gained more ____political_________ rights.
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Which philosopher would most likely promote the ideas in the excerpt?
John Locke
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The Enlightenment philosophes, such as the separation of powers, influence the political revolutions of the eighteenth century by incorporating ideas into __________ documents produced during the ___________
______constitutional_ Enlightenment___
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What impact does the Bill of Rights have on society in the United States?
US citizens are guaranteed specific legal protections
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Following the defeat of Napoleon, European powers came together at the Congress of Vienna in order to restore a __
_balance____________ of __power__________ in ___Europe__________
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Both the American and French revolutionaries issued documents declaring independence. What major idea contained in these documents was used as a justification for revolution?
Governments are established to protect ____citizens________ rights
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In 1215 King John of England signed the Magna Carta, which outline the idea that _
____a rulers subjects have rights_______
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An absolute monarchy can be defined as
centralized _____Control_______ of all __Political___________ process by the _____ruler_____________
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The Enlightenment furthered the development of democratic-republican governments by incorporating
new ideas about ___individual_______________ rights introduced during the enlightenment.
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What was the purpose of the boundaries established by the Congress of Vienna and how did it affect European history? T
he boundaries were a step towards the creation of a ____Unified___________ ____German________________ territory.
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Simón Bolívar was influenced by the American and French Revolutions by adopting _
_enlightenment_________ ideals and began ___revolutions_________ against __Spanish___________ authority.