Unit 4 Vocabulary

Religion reform movement that swept through Europe in the 1500s. It resulted in a branch of Christianity called Protestantism, who separated from the Roman Catholic Church

• Divine Right of Kings

• Protestant Reformation

• Enlightenment

• Absolutism

A government where a king or queen rules over an entire nation with unrestricted power.

• Absolute Monarchy

• Absolutism

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Parliament

The principle of complete and unrestricted government power that is usually in the hands of one person, a dictator or monarch.

• Absolute Monarchy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Divine Right of Kings

• Absolutism

An English philosopher and political theorist who laid much of the groundwork for the Enlightenment and made essential contributions to the development of liberalism.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

A writer who believed all power should be given to the King and that that people were too selfish to govern themselves.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

A French aristocrat and lawyer who was interested in discovering the basic ideas or principles of good government

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

Author of the Social Contract, which stated that only the people of the country have true power. He also criticized the idea of absolutism.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

A prolific writer, philosopher, poet, and a dominant figure of the 18th century French Enlightenment?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

A term used to describe a philosophical, intellectual, and cultural movement of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries.

• Protestant Reformation

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Enlightenment

• 1. Divine Right of Kings

A national representative body having supreme legislative powers within a nation

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Parliament

• Enlightenment

• Divine Right of Kings