PHILOSOPHES & Revolutions (American, French, Latin American)

Thomas Hobbes creates the idea of

• Popular Sovereignty

• Majority Rule

• Social Contract

• Absolute Monarchy

John Locke believes that men are

• Better than woman

• Born with natural rights (Life, Liberty, & Property)

• bad and need a poweful absolute monarch to keep order & safety in society

Montesquieu believes that there should be

• Separation of Powers; Checks & Balances
• 3 Estates
• Absolute Monarchy

Voltaire would die to

• Defend your right to speak
• Keep the Absolute Monarch in power
• Make sure that women get to vote

Wollstonecraft believes that

• France needs a constitution
• Government needs consent of the people
• Women are = to men

Enlightened Thinkers believed that we could use logic & reason to expand human knowledge.

• True

• False

Select the document that was NOT influenced by Enlightenment ideas.

• Declaration of Independence

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Constitution & Bill of Rights

• The Federalist Papers

____________________ = a representative house where each estate gets a vote

• Congress of Vienna

• National Assembly

• Judicial Branch

• Estates General

_______ = on July 14th, 1789, this building falls and becomes a symbol of the French Revolution

• Bastille

• Notre Dame

• Eiffel Tower

• Arc de Triomphe

Who leads the Reign of Terror?

• Oliver Cromwell

• Maximilian Robespierre

• Louis XVI

• Selim the Grim