Enlightenment
American Rev
Ancien Regime
Reign of Terror
Potpourri
100

Being the same in status, rights, and opportunities

Equality

100

This document was full of Enlightenment Ideas and was the justification for America's split from Britain

The Declaration of Independence

100

The King and Queen of France before the French Revolution

King Louis XVI (16th) and Marie Antoinette

100

On July 14, this prison was captured by the people. The symbolic start to the Revolution.

The Storming of the Bastille

100

Francis Bacon invented this.

The Scientific Method

200

Giving up certain rights (murder/steal) so the government can protect natural rights

Social Contract

200

Laid out the roles, rules, and procedures of the United States government

The US Constitution

200

Problems facing France before the Revolution

Growing population and growing national debt: Economic depression, unemployment, and high food prices

200

The name of the political party in the National Assembly that desired violence against the nobility of France.

Jacobin Club

200

The red cap worn by revolutionaries

Phrygian Cap

300

Wrote Leviathan, a defense of the absolute power of kings (1651)

Saw humanity in a “state of nature” as free, but barbaric and violent

In order to be protected from each other, all people agree to a “social contract” with their ruler

Thomas Hobbes

300

Written by James Madison, these enshrined the protection of individual liberties and limited the power of the federal government

The Bill of Rights (10 Amendments)

300

The name of the French government, a relic from the Feudal System

The Estates-General

300

7,000 angry French women stormed the King's palace and took the royal family back to Paris as hostages

The Women's March on Versailles
300

The most important scientist of the Scientific Revolution (the three laws of motion, universal gravitation, planetary motion, tides, comets, equinoxes, and solidified heliocentrism)

Sir Isaac Newton

400

The authority of the government is created and sustained by the people that support it / “power to the people”

Popular Sovereignty

400

Encouraged her husband to "remember the ladies" when writing the Declaration of Independence

Abigail Adams

400

The First Estate in the Estates-General was occupied by

Clergy, Catholic bishops, priest, monks

400

The Leader of the Committee of Public Safety during the Reign of Terror

Maximilien Robespierre

400

What Marie Antoinette probably didn't say when 7,000 angry French women arrived in Versailles.

Let them eat cake

500

Believed in “natural rights” such as “life, liberty, and property” that could never be given away

If the social contract is broken then the people have a right to revolt against their ruler

John Locke

500

A government divided into three branches (Legislative, Executive, Judicial)

Checks and Balances / Separation of Powers

500

The Estates-General was unfair because...

Clergy and Nobles (First and Second Estates) forced the common people (Third Estate) to pay unfair taxes

500

The journalist who spread propaganda about the royal family to anger the people of France. Was murdered in his bathtub.

Jean-Paul Marat

500

The name of the French goddess of Liberty

Marianne