Enlightenment Flashcards
Hobbes
Need absolute ruler to prevent war
Locke
Consent of governed, overthrow concept gov, natural rights
Montesquieu
Seperation of powers
English civil war
1642-48
Parliament vs King
Parliament wins est commonwealth later restored to monarchy
American Revolution
Enlightenment influenced 1775-1783 colonist v mother country
Glorious
Overthrow James 11 invited wm + Mary to rhrone, limit monarchs
English bill of rights
French Revolution stages
Bastille - spark
New gov tennis court oath
Document
Radicals take over (reign of terror)
Louvreture
Slave who led revolt for independence in Haiti against France
Bastille
Storming of this French fort by peasants
Mestizo
Latin American social class of mixed Native American and European descent
Garibaldi
Leader of red shirts who attacked Sicily and unified socher Italy and northern Italy
Simon bolivar
Creaole (Spanish parents but born in Latin America) led Venezuelan and South America independence movements from Spanish
Oliver Cromwell
Led Roundheads in English civil war and became military dictator in England
Don Quixote
Story by Miguel de Cervantes first modern novel in enlightenment
Locke
Two treaties on gov “life liberty and property” ppl have right to overthrow bad gov
Charles 1
King who refused to share power w English parliament. Beheaded
Wm + Mary
Rise to power in England restored order and brought peace after glorious revolution by created bill of rights
Napoleon
French soldier who gained popularity became emperor of France, failed invasions of Russia trad algae and Waterloo
Consent of governs
Agreement between rulers and the people.
Voltaire
Right freedom of speech and separation of church and state
Hobbes
Wrote leviathan stated all gov has power to manage citizen behaviors
Reign of terror
Confusion and fear, mass executions inf france after French Revolution
Delacroix
Enlightenment neoclassical painter
Rousseau
Social contract
Free individuals in society agreement
Napoleonic code
Laws which restored order in France
Congress of Vienna
After fall of Napoleon, meeting restore monarchies, political map of Europex balance of trade, growth of nationalism
Franco Prussian war
War between Prussia and France. Prussia won. Final stage in German unification
Glorious
“Bloodless Revolution”
French rev
Over throw of French monarchy by peasants highly influenced by success of the American Revolution and enlightenment
Cavour
Appointed prime minister of Sardinia and used diplomatic power to unify northern Italy
Miguel hadalgo
Roman Catholic priest who led independence movements against Spanish rule in Mexico
LA rev
Overthrow of colonial rule in south and Central America
