Week 5 The Enlightenment and Age of Revolution Flashcards
Who was Olver Cromwell’s son
Richard Cromwell
What did Oliver Cromwell do to the Irish
He want to extend his puritanical views onto them because the had rebelled against English Rule
- he attacked Drogheda (River Boyne)
- Defense was led by Arthur Aston and 3000 royalist troops who left after they got got
Where did Cromwell’s army assault?
Church of Saint Mary and Saint Peter’s Church
What did Cromwell do with the Irish soldiers
put then in back breaking prisons or made them work in Barbados on sugar plantations
What did king charles ii do?
conceeded lots of control to parliament
- Reinstated the Church of England as the National Church
-reopened theatres that closed (puritan)
What was wrong with James ii?
He was catholic
Who did king james ii marry?
Anne Hyde and Princess Mary of Modena.
What titled did charles ii give his brother?
Lord High Admiral of Navy. (didnt mean anyrhing until Anglo-Dutch wars)
Who did james’ daughter Mary marry?
Protestant William Duke of Orange (dutch stock holder)
Who did james ii try so hard to rule like?
King Louis XIV
What catholic/french like things did james ii do?
-he made a standing army
- he issued the Declaration o Indulgance which brought Catholics back into positions of power.
What was james ii’s downfall?
Him and Mary had a baby which made people scared of a catholic lineage
- 7 protestant nobles invited my boy will to invade Enlgand
- king Louis XIV offered james help but he said no cu he though he was him
-he was not
What did the protestant army offeres do when william was invading England?
They joined him and his dutch army
What did parliament do after William and Mary asceneded the throne?
They issues Bill of Rights (lowkey a diss-track against james ii)
Words that became heavily used and abused during the Age of Enlightenmet?
Nature and Reason
Who were the cosmopolitan humanists,men of letters, persuasive and lucid writers, dissaccociated with the church
Philosophes
French, Swiss, English, German, Italian, and American scholars
iv. French: Voltaire, Denis Diderot, Marquis de Condorcet
v. Switzerland: Jean Jacques Rousseau
vi. Great Britain: Adam Smith, David Hume, Edward Gibbon
vii. Germany: Gotthold Ephraim Lessing, Immanuel Kant
viii. Italy: Giambattista Vico, Cesare Beccaria
ix. Americans: Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison
What was the Social Contract?
Book by Rosseau that said individuals either knowingly or unknowingly consented the submit their rights in order to preserve their other rights
What was Two Treatises of Government
John Lockes work that said that everbody has rights to life, liberty, and estate
- ppl can revolutionize against authority if their policies aren’t in favor of the ppl
(Revolution is “the people’s obligation”)
Purpose of American revolution?
to seperate from england
what things influence ideas of American Revolution
Common Law, but mainly English Civil War and Glorious Revolution
Who is William Hogarth
satirical engraver that commented on Englands “rotten burrows” (means that election is rigged)
Who did Thomas Jefferson steal most of the Dec of Indenpendance from.
John Locke
Who was appointed Controller of General Finance after Jaques Necker?
Charles Alexander Calonne
why was is crazy that Lois XVI called the Estates General (for food/ money crisis)
they hadn’t met since Louis XIII was king
where did the commoner group of the Estates general go after Louis XVI locked them out of the meeting hall.
An unused Tennis court
What did the
