Napoleon Quiz

• What was the MAIN purpose of the French Revolution?


  to maintain balance and equality within france
• True or False: ALL Enlightenment thinkers were men

  False
• Thomas Hobbes


  an advocate of a social contract "government was needed to take care of the people..."
• John Locke


  believed in natural rights; "humans create government to preserve human safety and rights."
• Voltaire


  believed in freedom of religion. "observation was the basis of all knowledge."
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

  strongly encouraged the idea of a social contract among the people; "people are naturally good and it is society that corrupts them."
• William Blackstone


  influenced the common law legal system; "inspired the United States to adopt this form of law.
• Denis Diderot


  edited the encyclopedia
• Adam Smith

  believed the government only had to fufill three roles: protection from invasion, defending citizens from injustice, and mantaining public works; "government should not interfere in the economy of its state."
• Mary Wollstonecraft


  believed in women rights; "women should have an education because they educate the children."
• What was a free-market?


  an economy operating according to the forces of supply and demand.
• Which revolutions came from Enlightenment ideas?

  glorious revolution and french revolution
• Who was involved in the English Civil War?

  charles I
• Who ruled DURING the French Revolution?

  Louis XIV and Marie Antoinette
• Who did the king call to help solve the economic crisis in France?

  the estates general
• What estate were the bourgeoisie a part of? (Remember their complaints and desires)

  the third estate
• What Bourbon ruler came back to power in the Bourbon Restoration?

  Louis XVII
• True or False: The Napoleonic Code was only applied to France.

  False
• Where was Napoleon's final defeat?

  Waterloo
• What countries were involved in the Congress of Vienna?


  France, Britain, Prussia, Russia, and Austria
• Why was the French Revolution so significant? What did it prove about the third estate?

  people could do anything they could, including overthrowing government.