Test 1

Question 1

what is an absolute monarchy

Answer 1

where the king or queen had absolute power within their borders and wanted to control every aspect of society

Question 2

Divine right of kings

Answer 2

Kings represented God on earth so people must obey without question

Question 3

What were the benefits of absolute monarchy

Answer 3

clear decision maker, stability with clear leader in the future

Question 4

disadvantages of absolute monarchy

Answer 4

lack of citizen participation, lack of citizen choice and right, infrequent/erratic change in leaders

Question 5

Where did absolute monarchies want to control

Answer 5

1. Government 2,Nobility 3. economics 4. power

Question 6

T or F: The magma carter was meant to be temporary

Answer 6

True

Question 7

Why did king Henry want to divorce his first wife, then what happened

Answer 7

she couldn’t have a son and he asked the pope to authorize a divorce and he wouldn’t so Henry made his own church to authorize his divorce

Question 8

What happened to the crown after Jane died

Answer 8

It went to the son Edward but he had a childhood disease so he died soon after so it went to the first wife of Henry but she was catholic so it became a catholic nation

Question 9

What happened to the crown after Jane died

Answer 9

It went to the son Edward but he had a childhood disease so he died soon after so it went to the first wife of Henry but she was catholic so it became a catholic nation

Question 10

What happens after Elizabeth 1 dies

Answer 10

she has no heirs so it goes to James 1 of Scotland to become the english king

Question 11

What did Charles 1 want to do with the goverment

Answer 11

He wanted to strengthen the monarchy at the expense of parliament and believed in the divine right of kings

Question 12

What was the main cause of the English Civil war

Answer 12

Charles 1 tried to collect taxes without alerting the parliment

Question 13

What was the petition of the right

Answer 13

a document created by parliament in attempt to limit the power of King Charles who was ruling without the consent of parliament

Question 14

how did Charles 1 react to petition of the right

Answer 14

he ignored it

Question 15

In the English civil war what was parliaments army called

Answer 15

New model army (roundheads)

Question 16

In the English civil war what was kings army called

Answer 16

Cavaliers

Question 17

What book did John Locke write, what did it say

Answer 17

two treaties of government, every person was free and equal under the law of nature

Question 18

What did John lock believe in (two things)

Answer 18

Natural rights, social contract theory (leader expected to fulfill rights without you giving them up)

Question 19

What did Thomas Hobbes write

Answer 19

Leviathan

Question 20

What government did Thomas Hobbes like

Answer 20

absolute monarchy

Question 21

What was Thomas Hobbes social contract theory

Answer 21

Giving up right for the king

Question 22

Whats another word for Age of reason

Answer 22

the enlightment

Question 23

What was the Enlightment

Answer 23

it was based on observation and willingness to question what was already assumed especially questioning absolutism

Question 24

What did the philosophies do

Answer 24

an enlightenment group in France that believed by using reason one could reform government, law, and society

Question 25

Who was Montesquieu and what did he write

Answer 25

a influential thinker who studied the governments in Europe, he wrote spirit of the laws, he believed in dividing government up into 3 categories and the separation of power

Question 26

Who was Rousseau and what book did he write

Answer 26

he WROTE the social contract saying that controls over society should be minimal and only freely elected officials could impose these controls

Question 27

popular sovereignty

Answer 27

people ruled themselves (through representatives)

Question 28

Rousseau theory of general will

Answer 28

Government is legit if it follows the general will of the people but if government places itself above law it loses all legitimacy

Question 29

What did Mary Wollstonecraft believe/not believe in

Answer 29

the enlightenment slogan "free and equal" did not apply to women, she challenged these ideas by arguing being a mother is a women's 1st duty but she should be able to make decisions independent from her husband

Question 30

Who wrote " a vindication of the rights of women"

Answer 30

Mary wollstonecraft

Question 31

Popular sovereignty

Answer 31

The government is created by and subject to the will of the people

Question 32

What big event caused Oliver Cromwell to come to power as a military dictator

Answer 32

English civil war

Question 33

after Cromwell dies who restored the monarchy,

Answer 33

Charles ll

Question 34

James l came to the throne after Elizabeth l and also authored a book explaining

Answer 34

divine right of absloute monarchy

Question 35

Who wrote Leviathan and what did it say,

Answer 35

Thomas hobbes, it argues for a social contract and popular sovereignty

Question 36

Whats was thomas hobbes view of humankind

Answer 36

they were evil and war bound and needed a monarch to control them and keep them in check

Question 37

What was thomas hobbes social contract theory

Answer 37

you give up all your right to the king because he will then deliver your natural rights

Question 38

who believed in tablu rusa and what did it say

Answer 38

John locke, everyone was born with a blank slate and was corrupted by society

Question 39

what book did Montesquieu write and what was it about

Answer 39

Spirit of the laws, it was about checks and balances and the 3 types of goverment

Question 40

Who wrote social contract theory and what did it say

Answer 40

Rousseau, people are born with certain rights and a leader is expected to fufill them

Question 41

Who believed in general will of the people

Answer 41

Rousseau

Question 42

Who wrote the vindication of the rights of a women.

Answer 42

Mary willstonecraft

Question 43

who wrote life liberty and the persut of property

Answer 43

john locke