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WorksheetsAbsolutism/Enlightenment
Total questions: 24
Worksheet time: 13mins
_____ of Spain ruled as an absolute monarch for 42 years.
Philip II
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Elizabeth I
_____ of France ruled as an absolute monarch for 72 years.
Philip II
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Elizabeth I
_____ of Russia ruled as an absolute monarch for 43 years (1682-1725).
Philip II
Louis XIV
Peter the Great
Elizabeth I
The Spanish ____ was defeated by faster English ships and a savage storm in 1588.
armada
versailles
chinampas
caravel
Louis XVI built a palace called ____ for himself that housed up to 10,000 people, and put France into massive debt.
Versailles
Estates General
Armada
St. Petersburg
Peter the Great built a new capital called ____ that was designed to be closer to the West (Europe).
Versailles
Moscow
Great Petersburg
St. Petersburg
Peter the Great wanted to modernize Russia based to the ideas of Western Europe, this was called ____.
westernization
easternization
Czar
Europa
____ were French Protestants.
Huguenots
Estates Generals
Versailles
Parliament
Which one of these was NOT in the English Bill of Rights passed in 1689?
Separation of Powers
The king cannot tax or overturn Parliament's laws
Protected freedom of speech
The army cannot be used as a police force
No excessive bail
___ is Britain's lawmaking body consisting of 2 chambers.
Parliament
Estates General
Magna Carta
Constitutional Monarchy
Nobles forced King John to sign the ___ in 1215, which weakened the power of the monarch in England.
English Bill of Rights
Magna Carta
Parliament
Estate General
____ supported rule by an absolute monarch because they were the only ones who could provide a good gov't.
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
____ believed that people were born with natural rights, like life, liberty & property. He supported a limited monarchy.
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
____ criticized intolerance, prejudice, & oppression and supported freedom of speech and religion
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
____ believed in individual freedom that people need to form a social contract for the common good. Supported a direct democracy
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
____ believed in a right to a fair & speedy trial and was against torture.
Cesare Beccaria
Denis Diderot
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
____ created the 1st encyclopedia, which spread ideas about the enlightenment.
Cesare Beccaria
Denis Diderot
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
____ came up with the idea of capitalism and laissez-faire economics.
Cesare Beccaria
Denis Diderot
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
____ wrote a Vindication of the Rights of Woman, which advocated for opportunities for education & professions for women.
Cesare Beccaria
Denis Diderot
Adam Smith
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence in 1776, based on the works of the philosophe, ____.
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Baron de Montesquieu
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Battle of ___, was the turning point of the American Revolution because the Americans defeated the British which helped the French joined the Americans.
Saratoga
Delaware
Gettysburg
Lepanto
Paris
