Enlightenment and Revolution Jeopardy

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Enlightenment and Revolution Jeopardy
Enlightenment Thinkers Old Regime National Assembly National Convention Napoleon
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Enlightenment Thinkers 100

• Type of government advocated by Locke,
  Montesquieu, and Rousseau.

What is a limited government? (constitutional
monarchy)
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Enlightenment Thinkers 200

• Believed a governments power should be
  divided into separate branches. Each branch
  should be able to check the power of another to
  prevent it from becoming too powerful.

Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
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Enlightenment Thinkers 300

• Believed that all citizens were born with
  natural rights. If the government did not
  protect those rights, the people could overthrow
  the government.

Who is John Locke?
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Enlightenment Thinkers 400

• Believed in equality for everyone and that
  people should have the freedoms of speech and
  religion.

Who is Voltaire?
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Enlightenment Thinkers 500

• The purpose of government according to Locke
  and Rousseau.

What is to protect the rights of the citizens?
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Old Regime 100

• The nobles social position according to
  Frances social structure.

What is the 2nd Estate?
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Old Regime 200

• An advantage for the 1st and 2nd Estate in
  France that caused discontent.

What is they did not pay taxes?
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Old Regime 300

• Reason for Frances financial crisis.

What is deficit spending (payments for war)?
Also due to mismanagement of funds by King and
Queen.
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Old Regime 400

• Reason King Louis XVI called the Estates
  General into session in 1789.

What is to solve the financial crisis?
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Old Regime 500

• Unfair social structure, starvation of
  millions, poor financial decisions by Louis XVI,
  Marie Antoinettes inability to have a son and
  her spending habits.

What are reasons for discontent amongst the
people of France?
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National Assembly 100

• Decision to not stop working until a
  constitution was written and adopted.

What was the Tennis Court Oath?
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National Assembly 200

• Action taken by the citizens of Paris to
  protect the National Assembly in the beginning of
  the French Revolution.

What was stormed the Bastille?
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National Assembly 300

• Written to ensure that all male citizens of
  France were entitled to certain rights. Similar
  to Americas Declaration of Independence.

What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man?
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National Assembly 400

• Type of government created by the National
  Assembly.

What was a constitutional monarchy?
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National Assembly 500

• Change made to take away the special
  privileges of the 1st and 2nd Estate.

What was abolished the old social
structure (Church now under state control and
nobility were forced to pay taxes)?
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National Convention 100

• Main method of execution for those deemed to
  be traitors or against the revolution in Paris.

What is beheading (Guillotine)?
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National Convention 200

• Period in which hundreds were executed in
  Paris and thousands throughout France by the
  Committee of Public Safety.

What was the Reign of Terror?
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National Convention 300

• He was seen as the leader of the government
  and was executed to end the Reign of Terror.

Who was Robespierre?
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National Convention 400

• Radical political club that called for the
  execution of King Louis XVI.

Who are the Jacobins?
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National Convention 500

• One of the radical changes made by this
  government.

What was to abolish the Catholic Church or to
change the calendar?
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Napoleon 100

• Napoleons final defeat.

What was the Battle of Waterloo?
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Napoleon 200

• Napoleons plan to defeat Great Britain
  following his failure at Trafalgar.

What was the Continental System?
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Napoleon 300

• Two reasons for Napoleons failed Russian
  invasion.

What was the scorched-earth policy, bitterly
cold winter, guerrilla warfare, Grand Army were
not all French?
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Napoleon 400

• One change made by Napoleon that restructured
  Europe.

What was to abolish the Holy Roman Empire,
created the Confederation of the Rhine,
unified Northern Italy, named relatives to
positions of leadership, or spread nationalism?
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Napoleon 500

• One reform made by Napoleon that improved
  France.

What was to create the Napoleonic Code, issued
the Concordat with the Catholic Church,
controlled prices, created a Bank of France
(finances), or established a public education
system?