Revolution and Rights

Question 0

What is Enlightement

Answer 0

1784

Question 1

The Bill of Rights

Answer 1

1688

Question 2

“What is the Third Estate” - Sieyès

Answer 2

1789

Question 3

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

Answer 3

Aug 26, 1789

Question 4

Le Chapelier Law

Answer 4

June 1791 - guilds/workers organizations and strikes illegal –> proclamation of free enterprise as the norm

Question 5

Assignats

Answer 5

The assignats were issued after the confiscation of church properties in 1790 because the government was bankrupt. The government thought that the financial problems could be solved by printing certificates representing the value of church properties.

Question 6

Edmund Burke “Reflections on the Revolution in France”

Answer 6

1790 - no man should judge his own cause

Question 7

Cordelier Club

Answer 7

Political participation for commoners

Question 8

Constitution 1791

Answer 8

France a pacifist nation

Question 9

Enclosure acts and its consequences

Answer 9

General Enclosure Act 1801 - powerful landowners influence Parliament. “The abuses of the Industrial Revolution were standardized, institutionalized and carried to excess by government and the use of political means” - Wendy McElroy. Press-gangs

Question 10

La Feyette

Answer 10

Hero of two worlds

Question 11

Aims of both revolutions

Answer 11

American - Liberty - absolute freedom

French - equality - “freedom shall be defined by law”

Question 12

Abolition of slavery in FR

Answer 12

1794 –> Napoleon returned it in 1802 but not on mainland

Question 13

National Convention and Terror

Answer 13

Sept 1793
Girondins - “We must preserve the ideals of free speech and Liberty at all costs. Otherwise the French Revolution is not worth fighting for.”

Jacobins - “we must suspend free speech and Liberty so we can win the war. Otherwise, there will be nothing left to defend”

Question 14

Robespierre guillotined

Answer 14

July 1794

Question 15

Stamp Act

Answer 15

“No taxation without representation” 1765

Question 16

Townshend Acts

Answer 16

Suppression of taxes at American ports - The purpose of the Townshend Acts was to raise revenue in the colonies to pay the salaries of governors and judges so that they would remain loyal to Great Britain

Question 17

Gordon Wood on the American Revolution

Answer 17

It was more radical:
Destroyed arisocracy
Removed monarchy
Leveled social classes
Installed a meritocracy

Question 18

Intendant

Answer 18

Sent in to the provinces to see if policies were enacted