1. Enlightenment & Revolution Review

2. What is the term for the right to vote?
Suffrage

3. During the Enlightenment, citizens wanted a King who could remain in power AND would use ideas of the Enlightenment to protect and govern them. What type of ruler is this?
Enlightened Despot

4. What are the rights that people have that they are born with called?
Natural Rights

5. What is it called when people take action in order to bring about economic, social or political change?
Revolution

6. Laws are also known as ____
Laws are also known as ____. Like the Sugar ___ or the Stamp ___ in the American Revolution.
Act

7. When someone overthrows the government, like Napoleon does in France, it is called a ____ _____
Coup d’etat

8. Allowing the colonial government to govern the colonies along as they are producing money for the King/Queen is called ________
Salutary Neglect

9. Groups with different opinions are known as ________.
Factions

10. A person who is very extreme and uses intense actions to bring about change is known as a ________. This word describes the Jacobins and the Reign of Terror.
Radical

11. The National Assembly wanted some changes to the French government, but not extreme changes. They could be described as _____________.
Moderate

12. A person whose ideas are based on tradition and social stability
A person whose ideas are based on tradition and social stability. These people would like minimal change. They want to keep things as they are and as they have been done before.
Conservative

13. To approve a document, like the Constitution, is to ______ it.
Ratify

14. Each class in French society was known as an ______.
Estate

15. What is another word for temporary, like the many governments of France?
Provisional

16. When a country owns territory in another country it is known as a ______.
Colony

17. The “National Razor” was used to behead people in France
The “National Razor” was used to behead people in France. What was the name for this machine?
Guillotine

18. The French people were proud of their country for overthrowing an unjust government. What term best describes their feelings?
Nationalism

19. When people give government authority to rule and in return government protects the rights of people, it is called a ______ ________. This idea was supported by Thomas Hobbes
Social Contract

20. Adam Smith’s idea that government should stay out of economics is known as _______-_____
Laissez-faire

21. Spending more money than you make is known as _______ ________
Deficit Spending

22. The ____________ is the Middle Class of France.
Bourgeoisie

23. What stem means “people”
pop

24. What stem means “war”
Belli

25. What stem means “free”
Lib

26. What stem means “to be from”
Nat

27. What stem means “equal”
equi

28. What stem means “nature of”
Ite

29. What does “phil” mean?
love

30. Name 5 Enlightenment Thinkers and their main ideas
Hobbes- Social Contract Theory
Locke- Natural Rights
Wollstonecraft- Women’s Rights
Montesquieu- Separation of Powers
Beccaria- No cruel & unusual punishment
Diderot- Encyclopedia
Smith- Capitalism
Voltaire- Freedom of Speech

31. What was the main reason for the English Civil War?
Charles I was an absolute monarch who refused to share power with Parliament

32. What is the Glorious Revolution?
Protestant King and Queen (William and Mary) take the throne of England from Catholic king (James II)

33. What were the 3 main reasons for conflict between the Americans & the British that led to the American Revolution?
Taxes on colonists
No voice in Parliament
Proclamation of 1763 (no settling west of App. Mtns.)

34. Name 3 reasons for the French Revolution (can be long or short term causes)
Nobles & Clergy refuse to pay taxes (1st and 2nd Estate)
Deficit Spending by the king and queen
Famine
Absolutism
New Enlightenment ideas
Successful Revolutions

35. What is the reign of terror?
When the Jacobins and Robspierre killed anyone who opposed the revolution in France