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thomas hobbes
absolute power of monarchy - monarch meets needs and will of people
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john locke
- tabula rasa (blank slate) WE ARE ALL BORN EQUAL
- humans have the right to life , liberty, and property. NO DIVINE RIGHT
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montesquieu
creates idea of government division (legislature, executive, judicial)
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legislative government
creates and passes laws (alberta house of commons)
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executive government
senate (sober second thought) - office of prime minister
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judicial government
enforces law - court
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rousseau
general will (opposite of monarchy) people choose the government
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voltaire
freedom of speech and religious toleration to: protect democratic institutions
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revolution vs revolt?
revolution creates new system, revolt is a rebellion
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governments created by revolution in order
the national assembly, legislative assembly, national convention, the directory
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what is the national guard
new army created by national assembly, marquis de lafayette
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la grande peur?
nobles fled (emigres) and surrounding nations began to attack france
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what changes did the national assembly cause
liberty (from feudal system), equality (equality before law), brotherhood (declaration of the rights of the man)
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what did the tennis court oath cause?
first government of france (national assembly)
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what is the first national day?
the storming of the bastilles (july 14 1789)
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why did king louis XVI call the estates general
due to financial crisis
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what did the declaration of the rights of man create
split government into 3 powers ( legislative, judicial, executive) it is the end of the old regime and is the constitutional monarchy now
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civil constitution of the clergy?
all special privileges of the first and second estate are abolished, King Louis is forced to sign it
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after the civil constitution of the clergy was signed, which government was created and what was it made up of?
the legislative assembly. it was made up of jacobins, girondins, and conservatives. KNOW WHERE EACH FALLS ON SPECTRUM
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who's robespierre
the leader of the jacobins, creates the committee of public safety, creates "reign of terror"
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who were the sans - culottes?
lower middle class radicals
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what is la marseillaise
the first national anthem ever created
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what is the national convention
the third government in power where the jacobins take control and sans - culottes take force, king louis is executed and the committee of public safety is created
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what is the committee of public safety?
the tribunal that executes anyone against the revolution, it's supposed to control internal opposition. lead by robespierre
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how does the reign of terror end?
girondist party puts all leaders of committee of public safety on trial and robespierre dies of guillotine
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what is the directory?
4th government of french rev. its an oligarchy.
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before 1789?
absolutism and the enlightenment
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1789
- tennis court oath (after estates general stuff)
- the storming of the bastilles
- national assembly creation
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1791
- legislative assembly created
- declaration of rights of man and the citizen
- civil constitution of the clergy
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what is levee en masse
forces all men 18 - 25 to go into the army
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1793 - 1794
- jacobins seize power, creation of national convention
- the king and queen are executed
- REIGN OF TERROR
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1795
robespierre is executed and the directory is created
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