Feudalism, Monarchy and the Road to Democracy

(Study Guide)

 


European Feudalism

Ø    Understand the changing nature of kingdoms and borders during the Middle Ages. (500 AD to 1300 AD)

Ø    What is feudalism?

Ø    king and queen, lords knights and serfs

Ø    What are their rights, duties and living conditions?

Ø    Who makes the laws?

Ø    Know the organization of land ownership

Ø    monarchy

Ø    monarchy vs. dictatorship

 

The Enlightenment

Ø    Know the time period and basically what it is.

Ø    Locke, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft and Montesquieu

-   Separation of powers

-   Power corrupts

-     Equal Rights

-    Women's rights in 1700's

 

The Road to Democracy

 

England:

Ø    the Magna Carta

Ø    Constitutional monarchy

Ø    Parliament, assembly, congress, senate

Ø    British Empire

 

The United States:

Ø    The American Revolution

Ø    Taxation without Representation

Ø    Declaration of Independence

Ø    The Constitution of 1787

-     Bill of rights (have a general knowledge of the rights guaranteed, especially # 1)

 

France:

Ø    Louis XIV

Ø    French Society in the 1700's

Ø    Louis XVI

Ø    The Palace of Versailles

Ø    The Controller General

Ø    The Estates General

Ø    The 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Estates

Ø    The Tennis Court Oath

Ø    The Storming of the Bastille

Ø    The March on Versailles

Ø    The Constitution of 1791

-    king's veto

-     National Assembly

Ø    The Reign of Terror

Ø    Maximillien Robespierre

Ø    Napoleon Bonaparte

 

Democracy

Ø    Key ingredients: voting, rights and separation of powers

Ø    Role of a constitution

Ø    What is a revolution?

Ø    What is limited Democracy?