Unit 4: Atlantic World Political Revolutions

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Who made up the Third Estate?

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The Bourgeoisie and peasants

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What complaints did the Third Estate have with French society?

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Taxes should be equal for all social classes and the Third Estate should have equal political representation.

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Natural rights, social contract, and popular sovereignty are all ideas of the ________________ that inspired political revolutions in the Atlantic World.

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Enlightenment

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What is liberalism?

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Philosophy based on liberty, consent of the governed, and equality before the law.

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Why does popular sovereignty not support absolute monarchs?

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Because popular sovereignty is the belief that a state's power comes from the consent of the people, which is very different from the Absolute Monarchies based on Divine Right of the pre-Enlightenment times.

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The American Declaration of Independence was influenced by which Enlightenment ideas? Popular sovereignty, Social Contract Theory, Natural Rights Theory, All of the above

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All of the above

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What is the natural rights theory?

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All individuals are equal in the sense that they are born with certain natural rights that can never be taken or even given away. According to John Locke, these natural rights are "life, liberty, and property."

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What is the social contract theory?

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Citizens choose to be governed by the state, thus giving the state authority, and in return, agree to be governed by the rules outlined in the Constitution’s social contract.

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What is popular sovereignty?

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A political philosophy that believes the government is created by and subject to the will of the people.

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Which of the following were political and economic factors that caused the American Revolution?
- American colonists believed they had no popular sovereignty under British rule.
- American colonists had to pay high taxes to help Britain get out of the debt caused by the Seven Years’ War.
- American colonists believed King George III was “tyrannical” (infringement on their natural rights).
- All of the above

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All of the above