Absolutism, Enlightenment, AmRev, & French Rev

What is an Absolute Ruler?

• a ruler who is sure of their power

• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life

• someone who has to answer to a separate government body

• a ruler who shares their power with someone else

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

During the Age of Absolutism, how did rulers become the new leaders of a country?

• Voted in by the people

• Given the title by their friends

• Brought in from another nation

• They are in the bloodlines of previous rulers

A bloodless overthrow of the England ruler King James II

• Glorious Revolution

• French Revolution

• Constitutional Monarchy

• English Bill of Rights

The English Bill of Rights

• created a constitutional monarchy.

• resolved all of England's seventeenth-century religious questions.

• reaffirmed the divine-right theory of kingship while limiting the king's power.

• confirmed the king's right to raise standing armies without parliamentary consent.

In England, the Magna Carta, Glorious Revolution, and English Bill of Rights all led to the development of

• a dictatorship
• an absolute monarchy
• a theocracy
• a limited monarchy

The economic theory based on a country's ability to export more goods than import which contributed to the rise of absolutism was

• capitalism.

• laissez faire economics.

• mercantilism.

• socialism.

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into three separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness….”
The given statement best expresses the philosophy of

• Locke
• Hobbes
• Genghis Khan
• Ferdinand and Isabella

John Locke believed in what three natural rights?

• Life, Liberty, & Property

• Life, Equality, & Happiness

• Liberty, Equality, & Fraternite

• Live Free, Die Hard