Global History February Check Up

What is divine right?

• The right to rule was given to the monarch by God
• a Birth right
• soldiers for hire
• a monarch for hire

Absolutist monarchs were ones who

• sought to control all aspects of public and private life.
• gathered all power under their personal control.
• governed as if the affairs of state should benefit the people.
• respect the laws passed by the representative institutions.

A distribution of powers to more than one branch of government

• natural rights
• Separation of Powers
• Social Contract

Extreme patriotism, devoted to the interests of one's own country 

• absolutism
• nationalism
• constitutionalism
• communism

France was deep in debt because

• money spent on the American Revolution
• the queen's lavish spending
• the 1st and 2nd estates did not pay taxes
• all of the above

One cause of the French Revolution was the emergence of a new middle class of merchants and professionals called the 

• bourgeoisie
• aristocracy
• denoument
• ennui

The idea that reason should guide society rather than tradition helped cause the revolution and came from

• the Declaration of Independence
• the Scientific Revolution
• the Enlightenment
• all of the above

Most of the people of France belonged to the 

• 1st Estate
• 2nd Estate
• 3rd Estate
• 4th Estate

The movement of people from rural to urban areas is called

• nationalism 
• urbanization 
• urban 
• imperialism 

Excessive pride in ones country is called 

• imperialism 
• industrializaiton 
• meiji restoration 
• nationalism