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| Question | Answer |
| Montesquieu's three main ideas | separation of powers, checks and balances, and branches of government |
| What did Adam Smith come up with? | Capitalism. He is known as the "Father of Free Market Economy." |
| Who firmly supported the freedom of expression and religion? | Voltaire |
| What did Rousseau believe? | People are naturally born good with "general will," or conscience. |
| John Locke believed that people are __________ and ______. | "reasonable" and "moral" |
| Who came up with Natural Rights, and what are they? | John Locke; life, liberty and property |
| Who created the Social contract, and what was it? | Thomas Hobbes; an agreement with society and the government that said that it was the government's job to protect the people's natural rights, and that if the government became corrupt of failed its job, the people could overthrow it. |
| Thomas Hobbes thought that people are naturally _____, ______, and ______. | Cruel, greedy, and selfish. |
| What are the three things that Enlightenment inspired change in? | Government, Economics, and society |
| True or False: John Locke agreed with Hobbes's social contract. | TRUE |
| Copernicus was the first scientist to think the world was ____________. | Heliocentric. (Sun is the center of the universe) |
| What did Galileo, "Father of Science," do? | He improved the telescope and theorized that the earth revolved around the sun and the moons revolved around the planets. |
| In revolutionary France, what where the three estates made up of? | First Estate: clergy Second Estate: nobility Third Estate: the bourgeoisie, middle and working class |
| What were the 5 causes of the French Revolution? | 1. TAXES 2. BANKRUPT 3. AMERICAN REVOLUTION 4. ENLIGHTENMENT 5. SOCIAL CLASSES |
| What was the problem with French taxation? | Taxes were being placed on the peasants only, and they were higher than they could afford |
| What did the third estate do in hopes of changing France? | They created the National Assembly and took the Tennis Court Oath |
| What was the Tennis Court Oath? | a pledge to write a French constitution that met the people's needs. |
| July 14th, 1789, the Revolution began. What did the revolutionaries do first? | They stormed the Bastille for weapons and gunpowder. |
| What was the March to Versailles? | Angered mob of women marched to Versailles to get bread from the king. The king and the bread moved to Paris. |
| Why was King Louis XVI accused of treason and beheaded? | He asked for secret help from Austria, and got Austria and Prussia to attack France. |
| Who was Robespierre? | The head of the Committee of Public Safety who became a corrupt dictator of France and instated the Reign of Terror. |
| After Robespierre, who becomes the rulers of the country? | A group called the Directory. |
| Who was Napoleon? | A self-proclaimed emperor of France. He makes taxes fair, opens public schools, and gets rid of voting. |
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