Unit 4 - Absolutism and Revolutions

What was Cardinal Richelieu's main goal as chief minister?

Which of the following would describe Locke's views on government.

What was the Main goal of Ferdinand and Isabella after they united Spain?

How did Britain become a top world power?

Why did Peter the Great visit Europe and hire scholars to return to Russia with him?

Commerce and business compete for profit with little to no government interference.

Which of the following states was NOT added by the Habsburgs?

The army the parliament put together to take down Charles.

Unchanging principles, discovered through reason, that govern all human conduct.

A time period in the 1500s and 1600s when European scholars made advances in physics, chemistry, biology, and medicine.

What was the reason the Thirty Years War started?

Rights that belonged to all humans beginning at birth.

Allowing business to operate with little to no government interference.

Why did Spain launch the Spanish Armada?

What was the New Commonwealth?

Philosophers emphasized the power of human reason to uncover general laws of nature that shape all of human experience.

What advantages did the French military give the Americans once they joined the war?

Took over the Throne of Russia in 1682 at 10 years old.

Rulers of the HRE after the Thirty Years War.

Which of the following was NOT a main point of France's Constitution of 1791?

Was an emperor of Prussia. Grew Preferred arts over war but was forced into being the emperor by his father.

Was the daughter of HRE Emperor Charles VI. She’s best known for improving the lives of peasants.

What was the main reason the Spanish Empire fell?

What policy did Henry VIII and his daughter, Elizabeth I, different during their time as Monarch of England?

Ended the Thirty Years War

How did the Long Parliament lead to the start of the English Civil War?

Much like the Estates-General, was a group of people from all 3 Estates of France in charge of drafting a constitution.

When a ruler has complete authority over the government and lives of the people.

Which of the following would describe Hobbes views on government.

What was the main reason the American Colonists revolted?

Which of the following countries did NOT get a part of Poland after Russia's invasion?

Who won the American Revolutionary War?

What was the Monarch’s response to these Enlightenment ideas?

An agreement by which humans give up their freedoms for an organized society.

Which of the following was NOT one of Thomas Jefferson's main points in the Declaration of Independence?

Was appointed chief minister by Louis XIV.

Wealthy nobles who were well trained in fighting that supported Charles during the English Civil War.

A French legislative group made up of all 3 estates.

The English transition of power from James III to his daughter Mary and her husband William III.

Ended the American Revolutionary War and gave independence to the United States of America.

Which of the following was NOT part of the English Bill of Rights?

A type of government where a constitution or legislative body hold power over the monarch.

How did Maria Theresa regain order in Austria?

This prohibited the king from raising taxes without parliament consent or jailing anyone without justification.

Became the new residence of the King after King Henry XIV converted an old hunting lodge.

Poor men who thought they should live the same lives as the rich men.

Which of the following was NOT a backlash of Britain raising the Americans taxes?

The natural forces of supply and demand.

Nobles in Prussia.

An empress of Russia. Known for capturing the Black Sea and invading Poland.

What was the date the Declaration of Independence was signed?

The adoption of Western ideas, technology, and culture.