29 rev Flashcards
(39 cards)
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
In August 1789, the National Assembly expressed the guiding principles of the French revolution by issuing the
Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen
The guiding principles of the French revolution are summed up in the phrase (3)
Liberty equality and fraternity
The leaders of the Convention hoped to hold off invading counterrevolutionary forces by
calling for the levée en masse.
The most radical period of the French revolution was reached during the leadership of
Maximilien Robespierre.
Maximilien Robespierre was known as
The incorruptible
During the rule of the Directory,
the French revolution m..
moved in a more pragmatic direction.
Napoleon’s Civil Code affirmed
the political and legal equality of all adult men.
The turning point in Napoleon’s career was his disastrous 1812 invasion of
Russia
Napoleon’s final defeat occurred at
Waterloo
