Berkowicz WS Unit 3 Test 1

A form of government in which the sovereign exercises ultimate governing authority as head of state and head of government; his or her powers are not limited by a constitution or by the law.

• Constitutional Government
• Enlightened Despot
• Absolute Monarch
• Laissez Faire

According to Hobbes, what agreement do people enter into, giving their freedom to a powerful government, in order to avoid chaos.

• Social contract
• Divine covenant
• Constitutional monarchy
• Oligarchic agreement

The nobility, the clergy, and everyone else made up the three estates of this old French social order.

• Napoleonic Code
• Ancien Regime
• Congress of Vienna
• Articles of Confederation

The sans-culottes called for this type of government, in which representatives (or officials) are chosen by the people.

• Absolute monarchy
• Constitutional monarchy
• Republic
• Dictatorship

_________ is an intellectual movement whose three central concepts were the use of reason, the scientific method, and progress.

The concept of ____________ asserts that certain ideas, such as life, liberty, and property, belong to all humans from birth.

____________ is the feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country.

The ____________ was an assembly of European leaders that met after the Napoleonic Era to piece Europe back together; it met from September 1814 to June 1815.

While Austria was becoming a strong Catholic state, a region within the German states called ______ emerged as a new Protestant power.

• Bohemia
• Prussia
• Bavaria
• Saxony

How did the Enlightenment influence the American Revolution?

• By promoting absolute monarchy
• By advocating for censorship
• By inspiring ideas of natural rights and liberty
• By rejecting the idea of self-governance