History Quiz

The acceptance of or belief in absolute principles in political, philosophical, ethical, or theological matters.

• Absolutism

• Petition of Right

• Social Contract

• English Bill of Rights.

The right that is supposedly given to a King or Queen by God to rule a country.

• Social Contract

• Divine Right

• Divine Right

• Glorious Revolution

Legal petition formally used to obtain redress.

• Glorious Revolution

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

• Constitutional Monarchy

A system of government in which a country is ruled by a King and/or Queen with limited power due to a constitution.

• Absolutism

• Social Contract

• Petition of Right

• Constitutional Monarchy

Took place through 1688-1689. England over threw King James ll.

• Glorious Revolution

• English Bill of Rights

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Divine Right

An act signed into law in 1689 by William lll and Mary ll who became England's co-rulers.

• Absolutism

• Social Contract

• Petition of Right

• English Bill of Rights

An agreement among members of a society that defines rights and duties.

• Social Contract

• Divine Right

• Glorious Revolution

• Petition of Right

The practice of tolerating something.

• Natural Laws

• Versailles

• Toleration

• Czar

Used to challenge Divine Right of Kings.

• Laissez Fare

• Sovereignty

• Versailles

• Natural Laws

A policy or attitude of letting things take their own course.

• Toleration

• Laissez Fare

• Czar

• Natural Laws