Age of Political Revolutions 22-23

Which Enlightenment Thinker believed that people are naturally wicked, and need to be governed by an absolute monarch?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

The Declaration of Independence was influenced by what enlightenment thinker who suggested, "men are free" under the social contract?

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

A nation that has laws, a king with checked powers, and a parliament that can vote on issues and create legislation has what kind of government?

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

Who was the preeminent revolutionary leader in Haiti?

• Simon Bolivar

• Toussaint L'ouverture

• Dom Pedro I

• Miguel Hidalgo

Colonists

• Belief that a rulers' power comes directly from god.
• ability of a country to govern itself
• Signed in 1776 by US revolutionaries; it declared the United States as a free country.
• a group of people who settle in colonies

Constitution

• Ability of a country to govern itself
• A written plan of government
• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
• A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.

Absolute Monarchy

• A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.
• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
• French Revolution document that outlined the natural rights of all people
• a violent uprising against a ruler

Declaration of the Rights of Man

• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
• A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.
• French Revolution document that outlined the natural rights of all people
• a violent uprising against a ruler

Constitutional Monarchy

• A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.
• A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.
• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
• A written plan of government

Revolution

• French Revolution document that outlined the natural rights of all people
• A government in which the king or queen has absolute power.
• a violent uprising against a ruler
• a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.