Unit 5: Absolutism - American Revolution

A monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.

• Divine Right

• Versailles

• Absolutism

• Czar

Louis XIV restructured the policy-making machinery of the French government by

• requiring nobles to live at Versailles while excluding them from real political power.

• filling the royal council with his supporters.

• requiring Huguenots convert to Catholicism, leave France or be punished.

• all of these are correct.

Which of the following statements best applies to Peter the Great of Russia?

• Even though he desired to teach Russians western customs, he could only enforce his ideas among the old-fashioned nobles.

• His program of modernization was predominantly technical and aimed at modernizing the military while securing a sea port to make Russia a real military power.

• His respect for eastern governments led to increased powers for the Duma/Russian parliament.

• His traditional, conservative attitude stripped away all previous social gains for women.

French writer who believed in freedom of speech, religious tolerance, and the separation of church and state.

• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau
• Montesquieu

John Locke believed people were born with certain rights than no-one could take away. 

• Life, liberty, property
• Life , liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
• Freedom of speech, religion, and property
• Social Contract

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This thinker believed in the separation of powers within a government.  Each part should have check and balances over the other parts.

• Montesquieu
• Wollstancraft
• Locke
• Voltaire

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This thinker wrote "The Social Contract." He believed that government was a contract between the ruler & the people.

• Rousseau
• Locke
• Montesquieu
• Voltaire

The Enlightenment thinkers observed technological advancements due to the adoption of modern methods that relied on logical though, experimentation, and careful observation.  These advancements occurred during the 

• Scientific Revolution
• Age of Reason
• American Revolution
• French Revolution

During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.

• Ptolemy
• Francis Bacon
• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus

The idea that the earth is the center of the universe is the ___________ theory.

• geocentric
• heliocentric
• earthcentric
• world's worst