WH9-10 Ch.14 Test Review

How did absolute monarchs increase their power during the 1600s-1700s?

• Decreasing the size of government (bureaucracy)

• Increasing control over finances

• Increasing territory owned/controlled

• Decreasing power of nobles

• Increasing power over religion

What concept justified the king's authority as coming directly from God during the rise of absolute power?

• Social Contract

• Divine Right

• Enlightenment

• Constitutional Monarchy

Who set the stage for absolutism in France but was assassinated, leading to his son Louis XIII taking the throne at age 9?

• Cardinal Richelieu

• Henry IV

• Louis XIV

• Napoleon Bonaparte

Who became the chief minister for Louis XIII after Henry IV was assassinated?

• Louis XIII

• Henry IV

• Cardinal Richelieu

• Louis XIV

What actions did Cardinal Richelieu take against the Huguenots?

• He granted them more rights.

• He ignored them completely.

• He destroyed them.

• He converted to their faith.

How did Cardinal Richelieu weaken the power of the nobility?

• By giving them more land.

• By removing them from positions of authority in government and imprisoning and executing them.

• By increasing their taxes.

• By forcing them to quarter troops.

What was the Thirty Years' War a conflict between?

• Different political ideologies

• Various European empires

• Catholics and Protestants

• Eastern and Western Europe

Where did the Thirty Years' War begin?

• France

• Bohemia

• Sweden

• Spain

Who was Gustavus Adolphus?

• The Catholic emperor who took away religious freedom

• The emperor who crushed Protestant resistance

• The king of Sweden who joined the side of the Protestants

• The leader of the French forces on the Protestant side

What was the outcome of the Thirty Years' War?

• A Catholic victory

• A Protestant victory

• A stalemate with no clear winner

• A Protestant-French victory