Topic 12: The French Revolution

proposed that people are born with certain natural rights that cannot be taken away, including life, liberty, and property.

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Strongly advocated that only a powerful government was capable of protecting society. He believed that people entered into a social contract with their government to avoid the inevitable chaos and lawlessness of life in “the state of nature.”

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

What happened after the first female Hapsburg ruler assumed power in the mid-1700s?

• The Hohenzollern family seized Austria, renaming it Prussia.

• Prussia seized the Hapsburg province of Silesia, sparking the War of the Austrian Succession.

• With military support from Britain and Prussia, Hungary seceded from the Hapsburg empire.

• Prussia outlawed Protestantism, becoming an officially Catholic nation.

Which of the following is an example of the legislative branch checking the judicial branch in the U.S. government?

• Congress rejects a nominee to a federal court.

• The President appoints a new Chief Justice.

• The Senate approves a treaty negotiated by the President.

• The Supreme Court declares a law passed by Congress to be unconstitutional.

A ruler who has complete authority over government and the lives of the people is also called

• An absolute Monarch

• A democratic King

• a limited monarch

• a constitutional monarch

2) The members of the 2nd Estate?

• the middle class and the peasants

• the Catholic clergy

• the nobility

• the Bastilles

3) Members of the Third Estate?

• the middle class and the peasants

• the Catholic clergy

• the nobility

• the Royals

4) The middle class members of the Third Estate were called?

• Girondists

• Bourgeoisie

• Unicameralists

• Peasants

6) The rich palace where King Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette lived outside of Paris

• Bastille

• Versailles

• National Assembly

• The Grand Estate

8) Louis 16th called for a meeting of delegates called

• The Meeting of Versailles

• National Convention

• Committee of Public Safety

• Estates General