WH - Unit 2 Summative

Front

What important new political ideas resulted from the Enlightenment?

Back

The new ideas were focused on personal and group rights. In particular, they suggested that people could participate in governance.

Front

Why was the idea that the universe had rules, introduced during the Enlightenment, revolutionary?

Back

This sort of thinking rejected traditional reliance on religious texts and leaders. It undermined the authority of the church.

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How did the questions brought forth by the Scientific Revolution lead to changes in how people thought about political rights and organizations (in the Enlightenment)?

Back

These ideas suggested we could ask questions and create rules about human societies and the universe. It got people asking questions.

Front

Select the type of government about which the following statement is true: all power rests in the king/queen's hands, subjects passively obey the ruler and have no individual sovereignty.

Back

Absolute Monarchy

Front

Why, according our reading, was the Haitian Revolution the most radical of them all?

Back

It overturned the plantation and slavery system.

Front

What helped Count Cavour succeed in defeating the Austrians and establishing the Kingdom of Italy in 1861?

Back

He was a good diplomat. He had French allies, and the more radical revolutionaries had been sidelined.