Starter quiz
- Put these time periods into the correct chronological order.
- 1⇔the 'Dark Ages'
- 2⇔the Renaissance
- 3⇔the Scientific Revolution
- 4⇔the Enlightenment
- 5⇔the Industrial Revolution
- 6⇔the 20th century
- During the Scientific Revolution of the 1500s, which of these people challenged the teachings of the Church by explaining that the Earth revolved around the Sun, rather than the other way around?
- Isaac Newton
- Galileo ✓
- Copernicus ✓
- Stephen Hawking
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- Which of the following thinkers do we class as belonging to the Enlightenment movement of the 1700s?
- John Locke ✓
- Jean-Jacques Rousseau ✓
- Benjamin Franklin ✓
- Isaac Newton
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- Match the events with the year they took place
- King Louis XVI of France is executed⇔1793 ✓
- Britain imposes the Stamp Act on America⇔1765 ✓
- Haiti wins its revolt against France⇔1804 ✓
- What word is used to describe a country without a monarch?
- 'republic' ✓
- What effect did revolutions that were happening all around the world have on monarchs in the 1700s and 1800s?
- little effect - monarchs remained calm despite revolutions in other countries
- no effect - monarchs just ignored what was going on in other countries
- large effect - monarchs worried that revolution would spread to their countries ✓
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Exit quiz
- Which laws were brought in by the British government due to discontent caused by the French Revolution?
- The Seditious Meetings Act ✓
- The Revolutionary Ideas Act
- The Factory Act ✓
- The Treason Act ✓
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- Was Edmund Burke for or against the spread of French revolutionary radical ideas?
- For
- Against ✓
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- Match the British political thinker to the pamphlet that they wrote.
- Edmund Burke⇔Revolution in France ✓
- Mary Wollstonecraft⇔A Vindication of the Rights of Man ✓
- Thomas Paine⇔Rights of Man ✓
- In what year did the French people execute their king, Louis XVI?
- '1793' ✓
- Which group in French society broke away from the Estates-General and launched the French Revolution in 1789?
- The First Estate (the clergy)
- The Second Estate (the nobility)
- The Third Estate (the commoners) ✓
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- Which of these British political thinkers wanted to encourage the spread of radical revolutionary ideas from France to Britain?
- Edmund Burke
- Mary Wollstonecraft ✓
- Thomas Paine ✓
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Key learning points
- The French Revolution led to the execution of King Louis XVI and social upheaval in France.
- Burke and others feared that the French Revolution would inspire similar social upheaval across Europe.
- Pamphlets became popular at this time which historians use to understand British responses to the French Revolution.
- Wollstonecraft and Paine believed Britain should implement a written constitution like the French or US constitution.
- Pitt feared the unrest that the French Revolution was causing in Britain and brought in new laws to deal with this.
Common misconception
All contemporary British thinkers were complete supporters of the French Revolution.
Levels of support for the French Revolution amongst contemporary British thinkers varied.
Keywords
Revolution - a revolution is the forcible overthrow of a government: a great or complete change
Status quo - the status quo is a term used to refer to the way things are or the existing way society is set up
Pamphlet - a pamphlet is a small booklet or leaflet written to argue for or against an idea
Upheaval - when there is a great change in society it is known as a social upheaval
Constitution - a constitution is a set of basic principles or laws that govern a nation
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