Age of Revolutions

What group of people helped influence the American and French Revolution, with the ideas of challenging the "divine right of kings"?

• The Humanist Thinkers

• The Scientific Thinkers

• The Revolutionary Thinkers

• The Enlightenment Thinkers

What Enlightenment thinker most influenced the American and French Revolution, with the idea of "natural rights"?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

The Declaration of the Rights of Man was influenced by what enlightenment thinker who suggested, "men are free" under the social contract?

• Rousseau

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

The Declaration of Independence was influenced by what enlightenment thinker who suggested, "men are free" under the social contract?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

What two influential people took over during different parts of the French Revolution?

• Louis XVI and Thomas Jefferson

• Marie Antoinette and Martha Washington

• Maximillian Robespierre and Napoleon Bonaparte

• King George III and George Washington

The original goal of both the American and French Revolution was to....

• To produce more food

• To get rid of the monarchy rule

• To create a new religion

• To allow the people to become aristocrats

One of the first radical moves of the Reign of Terror was sending King Louis XVI to what?

• The Electric Chair

• The Guillotine

• The Firing Squad

• Drown

The American Revolution triggers the French Revolution and Ireland to rebel against Great Britain. What unique traits did the American Revolution have that triggered other revolutions? Check 3 that apply.

• It was the first time a government was created using Enlightenment ideas

• It was the first time a colony overthrew its mother country

• The success in America inspired revolutions in Europe & Latin America

• It demonstrated that the British were weak and did not fight well

During the Reign of Terror, who was safe?

• ABSOLUTELY NO ONE

• THE KING

• ROBESPIERRE

• CITIZENS OF FRANCE

On July 14, 1789, French peasants stormed which French prison and armory?

• French Armory

• Fort Sumter

• Bastille

• Versailles