Enlightenment Vocab

Kings or Queens who held all of the power within their states' boundaries

• Absolute Monarch

• Divine Right

• Huguenots

• Enlightenment

Government agents used by Louis XIV who collected taxes and administered justice.

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• Intendents

• Estate

intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.

• Social Contract

• Philosophe

• Estate

• Enlightenment

social critics or philosophers from France.

• Great Fear

• Jacobins

• Guillotine

• Philosophe

Idea from Thomas Hobbes that suggested all humans are naturally selfish and wicked and must hand over their rights to a strong ruler to create/run their government.

• Social Contract

• Estate

• Tennis Court Oath

• Great Fear

French Protestant

• Huguenots

• Edict of Nantes

• Estate

• National Assembly

a pledge made by the members of France’s National Assembly in 1789, in which they vowed to continue meeting until they had drawn up a new constitution.

• Basketball Court

• Tennis Court Oath

• Plumlee's Oath

• National Assembly

social classes of France.  1st Estate: Church leaders.  2nd estate: rich nobles.  3rd estate: 97% of the people.

• Estate

• Estates-General

• National Assembly

• Intendents

a French congress established by representatives of the Third Estate to enact laws and reforms in the name of the French people.

• Estates-General

• Great Fear

• Bastille

• National Assembly

Gathering of all three estates of France called by the king.

• Estate

• Tennis Court Oath

• General-Estates

• Estates-General