Human Rights in a Modern World (H) Study Guide
Unit 1: Introduction to Human Rights - the Enlightenment and French Revolution
Tests format: Multiple choice, true/false, fill-in-the-blank (no word bank), short answers, source analysis
Chapters/readings to review: UDHR; Ch. 19 (Sec.2 and pg.476-477 of Sec.3) and 21 (all sections)
Key terms, people, and ideas to review:
- Right vs. privilege
- Universal human right
- Universal Declaration of Human Rights
- Medieval vs. Enlightenment worldview
- Divine Right Theory
- Absolute Monarchy
- Thomas Hobbes
- John Locke
- Social Contract Theory
- Tabula Rasa
- Philosophe
- Montesquieu
- Voltaire
- Causes of the French Revolution (“Filthy Cities”)
- Palace of Versailles
- Estate System
- Tithe
- Bourgeoisie
- Taille
- King Louis XVI
- Marie Antoinette
- Estates-General
- Cahiers
- National Assembly
- Tennis Court Oath
- Storming the Bastille
- “Great Fear”
- Moderate reforms
- Declaration of the Rights of Man
- Women’s March to Versailles
- Changes to the Church
- Constitution of 1791
- Unicameral legislature
- Political spectrum – radical, liberal, moderate,
conservative, reactionary
- Émigré
- National Convention
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Republic
Suffrage
Death of King Louis XVI
Jacobin (radical) takeover
France’s war with Europe
Conscription
Committee of Public Safety
Reign of Terror
Guillotine
Maximilien Robespierre
Directory
Napoleon Bonaparte
Coup d’état
Napoleon’s dictatorship
Napoleon’s reforms/changes to the gov.
Plebiscite
Napoleonic Code
Concordat of 1801
Napoleonic Wars
Battle of Trafalgar
Continental System
“Satellite” kingdoms
Grand Empire
Nationalism
Downfall of Napoleon’s Empire
Invasion of Russia
“Scorched Earth” policy
Napoleon’s exile
The “Hundred Days”
Battle of Waterloo
Napoleon’s lasting legacy
Goals of the Congress of Vienna
Prince Klemens von Metternich
Compensation, legitimacy, balance of power
Changes to the map of Europe
Buffer states
Concert of Europe
Short answer topics: You will respond to several “short answer” questions related to important concepts we have
studied in this unit. Some will involve source analysis – i.e. you will analyze political cartoons and/or excerpts from
primary sources using the same set of questions that we used in class when analyzing the engraving of the women’s
march on Versailles. This time, you will be analyzing sources that you have not seen/read before, but you will be
familiar with the concepts and events that they refer to.
Date of test: __________________________________________