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Age of Revolutions Review

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  • Which enlightenment thinker believed in separation of powers?
    Montesquieu
  • The image best represents which absolute monarch?
    Peter the Great
  • Which enlightenment thinker believed in religious toleration?
    Voltaire
  • Which estate was taxed the most leading to the French Revolution
    3rd Estate
  • How did the 1st and 2nd Estates always support one another?
    Voting together
  • What were the nicknames of the Parliamentaries and Royalists during the English Civil War?
    P = Roundheads; R = Cavaliers
  • Which event directly started the French Revolution?
    Storming of the Bastille 
  • Who was king during the American Revolution?
    King George III
  • Which estate was the most unhappy in French society?
    3rd Estate
  • How does the Palace of Versailles signal wealth and power?
    Showed French money and that King could build anything he wanted
  • Why was Louis the Great nicknamed the Sun King?
    He believed France could not survive without him
  • What was an economic motivation in both the American and French Revolution
    Unfair taxes
  • XIV
    14
  • How was Russia changed under Peter the Great?
    Westernized
  • What phrase is used by kings to say power is derived from God?
    Divine Right of Kings
  • 2nd Estate represented who:
    Nobles
  • Give one reason that influenced the French Revolution
    1) Enlightenment ideas of liberty 2) France had no money from helping the American Revolution 3) American independence led to the French wanting democracy
  • Which enlightenment thinker defended the absolute monarch?
    Hobbes
  • Inalienable rights?
    Life, Liberty, Property
  • What event started the French Revolution?
    Storming the Bastille
  • Name two absolute rulers we have discussed.
    Peter I, Louis XIV, Henry VIII, Charles I, Louis XIV
  • List the leaders of England in correct order; starting with Charles I and ending in the Glorious Revolution. 
    Charles I > Oliver Cromwell > Charles II > William and Mary 
  • Why was Charles I's wife a threat to England?
    She was Catholic and raised a Catholic son
  • Which enlightenment thinker believed in a direct democracy?
    Rousseau
  • Which enlightenment thinker believed in an individual's right to due process in the legal system?
    Beccaria
  • 3rd Estate represented who:
    Commoners
  • Which individual fought in both the American and French Revolution?
    Marquis de Lafayette
  • Describe an absolute monarch.
    A king who controls everything of the country.
  • Who was king over England during the English Civil War?
    Charles I
  • Why is the Glorious Revolution, 'glorious'?
    No bloodshed to change government
  • Which absolute monarch westernized/Europeanized Russia?
    Peter I/Peter the Great
  • 1st Estate represented who:
    Clergy
  • How did the American Revolution influence the French Revolution?
    French aide was too grand and proved people could change governments
  • Rousseau wanted what form of government?
    Direct Democracy
  • Wollstonecraft influenced what movement in the US during the 1900s?
    Women's Suffrage
  • Where was the capital of Russia moved under Tsar Peter I?
    St. Petersburg
  • What happened to Charles I at the end of the English Civil War?
    He was beheaded on the charges of treason. 
  • Which monarchs ruled at the beginning of the French Revolution?
    Marie Antoinette and Louis XVI
  • XVI =
    16
  • Put the monarchs in order: Charles I, Charles II, Cromwell, William and Mary, James II
    Charles I, Cromwell, Charles II, James II, William and Mary
  • Who led the Parliamentaries during the English Civil War?
    Oliver Cromwell
  • Louis XIV built this palace to show the wealth and power of France. What is it called?
    Palace of Versailles
  • Why did the people dislike Marie Antoinette?
    She was oblivious to their suffering, she spent all of France's money, she did not produce an heir.
  • Who controlled France and wanted to take over all of Europe?
    Napoleon
  • Why did the people not like Marie Antoinette?
    Lavish lifestyle flaunted and no heir
  • Time period where fear was the policy used to govern?
    Reign of Terror