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