
UNIT 6 ENLIGHTENMENT AND THE Age of Revolutions
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6th Grade
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1.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
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The ___ made up roughly 97% of the French population.
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Third Estate
2.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
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.
3.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
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
4.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
Enlightenment thinkers believed that human beings are born with fundamental, basic rights. They include
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life liberty and property
5.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
Hobbes, Locke, and Rousseau ALL believed that in the social contract the people agree to...
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obey a set of rules
6.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
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
7.
FLASHCARD QUESTION
Front
American document that recognized natural rights
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Constitution
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