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Philosophical movement in the 18th century characterized by individual reason and political innovation

What is Enlightenment

100
English enlightenment philosophe who stated that men have 3 natural rights; Life, Liberty, and Property. A government should provide these rights, as well as peace and security, and create laws for the greater good
Who was John Locke
100

This is the term for the 3 social classes of the Old Regime in France

What is an Estate

100
The peasants stormed this castle-prison to find weapons
What is the Bastille
100

The last king of France before the French Revolution.Commissioned the construction of The Palace of Versailles

Who is King Lous XVI?

200
Founding Principle of Common Power: Rulers provide order and stability while the people give up their right to self-govern
What is Social Contract
200
English enlightened philosophe that emphasized that all men are created equal, but quarrel as a result of competition, diffidence, and glory. He also stated that a government should represent its society and provide unity, peace and defense.
Who was Thomas Hobbes
200
This is the French middle class that helped fuel the revolution
What is the Bourgeoisie
200

Members of the delegation swore an oath to establish a constitution. A pledge made by the Third Estate of France on June 20, 1789


What is the Tennis Court Oath

200
French revolutionary; leader of the Jacobins and architect of the Reign of Terror; was himself executed in a coup d'etat
Who was Robespierre
300

Natural and legal rights are two types of rights: legal rights are those bestowed onto a person by a given legal system, while natural rights are those not contingent upon the laws, customs, or beliefs of any particular culture or government, and therefore universal and inalienable. ...

What are natural rights

300
This Philosophe believed government should have separation of powers
Who was Montesquieu
300
This estate paid almost all the taxes in the Old Regime
What is the Third Estate (The Peasantry)
300

King Louis XVI and his wife Marie Antoinette lived extravagantly. Doubled France’ debt and banks refused to lend more money this are the reasons for what?


 Calling of the assembly of the Estates General

300

Austrian-born queen of France; Louis XVI’s wife. AKA "Madam Defecit"

Who was Marie Antionette?

400

This philosopher was especially concerned with freedom of thought and expression. Also, he had a strong belief in religious tolerance and free speech.

Who is Voltaire?

400

This absolute monarch by building a strong army and generating wealth through colonies and trade.

Who was Louis XIV?

400

A governing body that represented the common people of France during the French Revolution. It was formed in 1789 by representatives of the Third Estate, or commoners.


What is the National Assembly

400
a period of remorseless repression or bloodshed during the French Revolution
What is the Reign of Terror
400

This person took power after the Jacobins were removed from power, Reign of Terror. The Directory was not able to bring order to France and was very corrupt. 


Who is Napoleon?

500
These are rules that are discoverable by reason
What is natural law
500

This monarch imposed new reforms and adopting Western practices, after touring Western Europe in disguise

Who was Peter the Great of Russia

500

a fundamental document of the French Revolution and in the history of human rights, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal. It was modeled after the American Declaration of Independence.

What is The Declaration of the Rights of Man

500

The major and immediate effect of  European powers formed an alliance to defeat France once and for all at the famous Battle of Waterloo in Belgium. 

What was the Fall of Napoleon?

500

This radical political organization behind the 1792 governmental changes

Who are the Jacobins?