UNIT 6 ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE Age of Revolutions

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The ___ made up roughly 97% of the French population.

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Third Estate

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Which of the following is an accurate description of the tax system in France in the years preceding the French Revolution? Options: Only peasants and the clergy paid taxes. Only about 2 percent of the nobility paid any taxes. The nobility paid taxes only on land, not on income. The members of the Third Estate paid almost all of the taxes.

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The members of the Third Estate paid almost all of the taxes.

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Which of the following was NOT a cause of the French Revolution?
An unfair tax system among the Estates,
Government debt from wars,
An increase in the cost of living,
Frequent attacks from the British

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Frequent attacks from the British

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Enlightenment thinkers believed that human beings are born with fundamental, basic rights. They include

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life liberty and property

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Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau ALL believed that in the social contract the people agree to...

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obey a set of rules

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The brightest Enlightenment thinkers, with names like Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke, influenced leaders in Europe, and became popular with _________________ who wanted independence.

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Americans

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American document that recognized natural rights

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Constitution

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True or false: Enlightenment thinkers like Locke & Rousseau believed that governments had a responsibility to hold up their end of the social contract.

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true

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True or false: To Enlightenment thinkers, the relationship between a government and its citizens was like an agreement.

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true

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Enlightenment thinkers believed that a government's power came from the consent of the governed, or in other words that the people had the ultimate power to decide who ruled them.

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popular sovereignty