Midterm

Question 1

Bill of Rights

Answer 1

The Bill of Rights is a list of fundamental rights of the citizens of the United States and serves to protect these rights from infringement by the government.

Question 2

Tennis court oath

Answer 2

The oath is significant because it was the first time that French citizens formally stood against the rule of Louis XVI.

Question 3

Declaration of the rights of man

Answer 3

These rights are universal: they are supposed to be valid in all times and places, pertaining to human nature.

Question 4

Reign of terror

Answer 4

It was important because it marked the reasons why France would never return to a monarchy.

Question 5

Marie Antoinette

Answer 5

She pretty much showed the French that her faith in Divine Right was misplaced.

Question 6

Montesquieu

Answer 6

Montesquieu was one of the great political philosophers of the Enlightenment. Insatiably curious and mordantly funny, he constructed a naturalistic account of the various forms of government, and of the causes that made them what they were and that advanced or constrained their development.