The Scientific Revolution
Galileo Galilei
What is the intellectual & cultural movement that emphasized reason over superstition and science over blind faith?
The Enlightenment
The National Assembly
The National Assembly created a new constitution in 1791 and shifted France into what type of government?
Constitutional Monarchy
What does a coup d'etat mean?
The sudden takeover of power
The theory that place the sun in the center of the universe and the earth revolves around it.
Heliocentric Theory
What British Law restricted the American colonies from exporting their most valuable products to any other country beside Britain?
The Navigations Acts
The majority of the population made up which of the estates in the Old Regime?
The Third Estate
What group in the Legislative Assembly opposed the Monarchy and wanted big changes in government?
The Radicals
Napoleon made several positive changes in reform, one of them was the Napoleonic Codes. What were the Napoleonic Codes?
Napoleon wrote this new set of laws which gave all French citizens the same rights.
But they also limited individual rights
This is a way of thinking described by Isaac Newton that included God’s role in the universe
Deism
The Enlightenment influenced a change in the rights to rule/govern. This is when we see a shift from divine right to the idea that _____________________.
government power comes from the people.
This was a senseless panic due to rumors about the Nobles hiring outlaws to terrorize the peasants causing the peasants to take up arms.
The Great Fear
What two countries urged France to restore the power of the Monarchy, ultimately leading France to declare war against them?
Austria and Prussia
How did Napoleon give up his New World plans in North America?
He sold the largest part of France's North America territory to the U.S. --- Louisiana Purchase
He advanced medical science by dissecting human bodies & publishing his observations.
Andreas Vesalius
What major documents did the Enlightenment thinkers influence in America?
(there were 3 major documents)
1. Declaration of Independence
2. Bill of Rights
3. U.S. Constitution
France was in a tremendous amount of debt, what was King Louis XVI solution to this?
taxing the nobility
What radical political organization became prominent in government in 1792?
The Jacobins
What was Napoleon's 3rd and most crucial mistake?
Invading Russia. He lost nearly all 400,000 soldiers that he started with.