The Enlightenment and French Revolution

Which Enlightenment thinker argued for natural rights—life, liberty, and property—and influenced the Declaration of Independence?

Which idea is most closely associated with Montesquieu’s major contribution to political theory?

Voltaire is best remembered for promoting which principles?

Thomas Hobbes’s social contract theory in this context supported which political outcome? Options: Natural rights protecting property, Absolutism to control selfish people, Religious freedom for minorities, Democratic checks and balances

Which group made up about 98% of France’s population yet had few rights and paid high taxes under the Old Regime?

Which event involved representatives of the Third Estate pledging to continue meeting until a new constitution was written?

Who led the Jacobins and sought to gain control of France and execute the king?

Which factors contributed to the collapse of Napoleon’s empire during the Russia campaign?

Which goal best describes a core aim of the Congress of Vienna after Napoleon’s defeat?

Who was the dominant political figure at the Congress of Vienna meetings?