Unit 6 French Revolution & Enlightenment Test Review

The American and French Revolution had ideas that traced back to the:

• Enlightenment
• Reformation
• Travels along the Silk Road
• Wisdom shared by Buddha

Before the French Revolution, the people of France were divided into three estates based mainly on their:

• Education level
• Geographic region
• Social class
• Religious Beliefs

Both the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man emphasized the idea that government must:

• Guarantee economic prosperity
• Protect the rights of the people
• Support established religious beliefs
• Operate on a system of checks and balances

The First Estate in French society was composed of 

• the Clergy
• people with special courts
• people who did not pay taxes
• all of the abve

The Second Estate was composed of 

• Church leaders
• Nobility
• Peasants
• none of the above

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st 
  Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

The King of France during the French Revolution. He was the King who was beheaded via the Guillotine. 

• Maximilien Robespierre

• Louis XVI

• Estates General

• Bastille

Which Enlightenment thinker had a negative outlook on people and thought an absolute monarchy was best?

• Locke
• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Montesquieu

Which Enlightenment thinker had the idea that if a government is not protecting your rights you can overthrow it?

• Hobbes
• Locke
• Voltaire
• Wollstonecraft

What were the 3 natural rights of individuals according to John Locke?

• life, liberty, property
• life, property, justice system
• liberty, happiness, individual achievement
• life, liberty, pursuit of happiness