World History Study Guide: The Enlightenment and

Age of Revolutions
Directions: Please complete the entire study guide according to
the instructions for each part. Answers should be recorded on a
separate sheet of paper. Answers can be found in the class notes
and textbook Chapter 5, 8 and 9.
I.

Explain the significance of the following terms, people, ideas,

publications, and events.
1.
2.
3.
4.
5.

Absolute Monarchy
Magna Carta
Glorious Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Enlightenment &
Reason
6. Natural Rights
7. Louis XVI
8. Estates General
9. Storming of the
Bastille
10.National Assembly
11.Tennis Court Oath
12.Declaration of Rights
of Man

13.Jacobin Club
14.National Convention
15.Robespierre & The
Committee of Public
Safety
16.Guillotine
17.Thermidorian
Reaction
18.Napoleon Bonaparte
& The French Empire
19.Congress of Vienna
20.Toussaint L Overture
21.Simon Bolivar

22.
II.
Answer the following questions completely.
22.What was the intent of Magna Carta?
23.What was Thomas Hobbess view on human nature? What type of government
did Hobbes promote as a result of his view on human nature?
24.Explain the impact the enlightenment had on the American Revolution including
our founding documents; The Declaration of Independence and Constitution.
25.What were the key ideas of John Locke for each of the following?
a. State of nature
b. Natural rights
c. Social contract
26.How does the U.S. constitution reflect the ideas of Montesquieu?
27.What were the three estates?
28.What were the social, political, and economic causes of the French Revolution?
29.How did the American Revolution turn out differently than the French
Revolution?
30.Explain the Rousseaus idea of the general will. How did this impact the
American and French Revolutions?
31.What were the causes of the French financial crisis? What did Jacque Necker
propose in order to fix this problem?
32.Why did Parisian women march to Versailles? Who did they come back with?
33.Explain the aims and consequences of the Reign of Terror?
34.Why was Napoleon defeated in Russia?
35.Chronologically order the French Revolutionary governments from the National
Assembly to the Napoleonic Empire.
1.
2.
3.