| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Social Contract | When people give up their natural rights in exchange for an orderly esistance |
| Natural Laws | Laws that every human on earth must follow in order to survive |
| Bastille Day | July 14, 1789 |
| Declaration of Rights of Man | Stated that under the law, everyone is equal |
| oligarchy | Government where only a select group of people rule |
| constitutional government | government where power is defined by law |
| physiocrat | person who applied methods of science in order to understand the economy |
| philosophe | person who applied the methods of science in order to understand society and politics |
| Why was England a global power? | Act of Union (made Scotland part of Great Britain and eventually created United KIngdom), Had best Navy in the world and they had many trading outposts an monopolies |
| Tories | English political party that supported royalty |
| Whigs | Supported Parliamant |
| bankruptcy | Can't pay back debt |
| cahiers | notebooks |
| What happened at the Estates General? | Only landowners were permitted to vote, so the third estate walked out and created the National Assembly |
| Tennis Court Oath | When the third estate vowed to meet whenever necessary to write a constitution |
| Why had people been protesting before Bastille? | they were starving |
| republic | government where people elect reps to make decisions for them |
| nationalism | very strong emotional belief in one's country |
| dictator | someone who gains supreme power via the military |
| emperor | supreme ruler who is worshipped by their people |
| plebiscite | a direct vote in where people vote yes or no |
| standardize | make the same for everyone |
| Napoleon | Enlightened Despot who declared himself emperor of France towards the middle of the Revolution. Fought too many wars so France went back into debt. |
| Napoleonic Law | Earn positions based on merit, freedom of speech and religion |
| Baroque | bright and colorful; grotesque |
| Rococo | decorative, ornate, and elegant |
| enlightenment | when someone attains greater knowledge or understanding about a subject or situation |
| Thomas Hobbes | Leviathan, People are evil, monarchies |
| John Locke | Two Treatises of Government, natural rights, consent of the governed, abusive government-people have the right to change it |
| Montesquieu | Spirit of the Laws, ideas led to separation of power |
| federalism | division of power among levels of government: city, state, and federal |
| Voltaire | quote about freedom of speech |
| Diderot | 28 volume encyclopedia, right to info |
| Rousseau | wrote Social Contract, people are born good but are corrupted by society, few controls, good of others before themselves |
| First Estate | made of clergy |
| Second Estate | nobles and aristocrats |
| Third Estate | made of everybody else |
| Causes of French revolution | debt, food shortage, social classes, and unfair distribution of taxes |
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