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Enlightenment
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Edward Jenner | Created a vaccine for small pox |
| natural laws | Laws that govern human nature |
| enlightenment | reform society with reason |
| Thomas Hobbes | Political writer where in his book Leviathan he said man needs a strong government to control greed and stupidity |
| John Locke | Political writer in his book Two Treatises on Government, says that men are basically good and can make decisions about gov. Gov needs to protect "natural rights" |
| Baron Montesquieu | said the best government spreads out power among three braches. "the spirit of the laws" |
| Philosophers | Enlightenment thinkers that applied the method of science to better understand and improve society |
| Voltaire | Targeted abuses in common day sent to exile. |
| Denis Diderot | created Encyclopedia |
| Jean Jacque Rousseau | Political writer where in Social Contract said that the majority rule "General Will" and that a natural right is for men to be happy |
| Germaine and Catharine | excluded from social contract |
| Physiocrats | Focused on economics reforms |
| Laissez Faire | Business to operate with little to no government involvement |
| Adam Smith | Supporter of Laissez Faire |
| Ancien Regime or Old order | First Estate Second Estate and third Esate |
| Clergy | First Estate: bishops and church officials flourished with money |
| NObility | Was the Second Estate |
| Everyone else 98% if the people | Third Estate |
| High middle class | Bourgeoise |
| Life of peasents | Burdened with taxes, go through starvation bc increase of price |
| The gov Spends more money than the it spends | deficit spending |
| Louis XIV | Left France deeply in debt, so France had to keep on borrowing money |
| Louis XV | DID nothing to help the debt just jept on spending"after us the Deluge" |
| Estate General called back | Many people complained bc they had many problems |
| cahiers | notebooks listing grievances |
| What happened under the voting system | Third Estate always lost 2:1 |
| NAtional Assembly | What the third estate called themselves worte own government and laws |
| The people rebel | They attack nobles because they have no money, no food and are treated unfairly |
| factions | small group |
| Marquis de Lafayette | LEad the revolution of the middle class |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen | All men are equal |
| Marie Antoinette y disliked | Not french but austrian, married unpopular king "Let them eat cake" |
| National Assembly reforms | 1)all people are equal 2)church under government control 3)Everyone had to pay taxes |
| Constitution | created limited monarchy |
| emigres | nobles clergy, and others who fled france and revolutionary forces |
| republic | Government not ruled by monarch but elected representatives |
| Jacobins | Radicals during french revolution wanted to stop absolute monarch, kill king and create republic |
| Sufferage | Right to vote |
| What happened to the king and queen | Both beheaded |
| Robespierre | Jacobin who let "COPS" COMMITY OF PUBLIC SAFTEY ordered execution to save revolution |
| Napolean Nonaparte | Military man whose seizure of power ended the Revolution and restored order to France. made himeslf emperor. "i found the crown of france in the gutter and i picked it up |
| nationalism | strong feeling of pride in and devetion to its country which spread through france |
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