Berkowicz WS Unit 3 Refresh

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

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

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

(a)   is the feeling of pride in and devotion to one’s country.

The (a)   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