29 rev Flashcards
In response to the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen,the French revolutionary leaders
refused to put women’s rights on their political agenda.
The author of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen was
Olympe Gouges
The revolutions of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century helped to spread Enlightenment ideals and
encouraged..
the consolidation of national states.
Revolutionaries of the late eighteenth and early nineteenth century focused
on the necessity of popular sovereignty.
The author of the Second Treatise of Civil Government was
Locke
NOT one of John Locke’s main ideas?
that although kings did have divine sanction, their subjects maintained personal rights
NOT one of the basic ideals of the Enlightenment thinkers?
Equality for women
Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in his The Social Contract, argued that in every country the sovereign voice of government
was the members of society acting collectively.
After the end of the Seven Years’ War,
the colonists grew increasingly frustrated with
British control and taxes.
The main slogan for the colonies in the years leading up to the American revolution was
“no taxation without representation.”
The Declaration of Independence’s contractual view of political structure in which the government drew its authority from “the consent of the governed” was influenced by
John Locke
NOT one of the principles built into the government of the newly formed American state?
the equality of all inhabitants
The leaders of the French revolution
called for a complete
reorganizing of French political, social, and cultural structures.
The ancien régime was the
old order in France that revolutionary leaders wanted to replace.
On June 17th, 1789, members of the third estate seceded from the Estates General and declared themselves to be the
National Assembly
