Enlightenment & French Revolution Review

The Enlightenment

• Age of Reason

  Challenges the monarchy

• Age of Violence

John Locke

• natural rights

• separation of powers

Montesquieu

• separation of powers

• free speech

Voltaire

• free speech

• people are evil

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• favors democracy

• favors absolutism

Mary Wollstonecraft

• women's suffrage/women's rights

• natural rights

Catherine the Great

• used ideas of the Enlightenment

• leader of Austria

Major cause of the French Revolution

• taxes paid by Third Estate

• Second Estate wanted more power

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• grant people rights

• put Louis XVI in power

Robespierre

• Reign of Terror

• National Assembly