Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism

[Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, 1678] What philosophy of government is advocated in the passage?

Divine Right Monarchy

[Frederick William, Elector of Prussia, proclamation, 1685] The dominant force in Prussian society was which of the following?

The Junker army officers

[Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651/John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution, 1690] According to Locke the purpose of government is to

Protect rights like property, life, and liberty.

[Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651/John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution, 1690] According to Hobbes the purpose of government is to

Provide safety for the people of the country

[King Charles I addressing the court, January 1649] Oliver Cromwell's reign as leader was marked by all of the following EXCEPT

Abolishment of the monarchy while he ruled as a military dictator

[Philipp von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism, 1684] The relationship between the mother country and her colonies

Allowed for the mother country to have a national monopoly on trade

All of the following are associated with the commercial revolution of 17th century Europe EXCEPT

An expansion of the guild system

[Frederick William, Elector of Prussia, proclamation, 1685] The Huguenots brought which of the following with them to Prussia?

Commercial experience

[Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651/John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution, 1690] The excerpts above can best be described as responses to

Conflicts between the British monarchy, Parliament, and other elites over their respective roles in the political structure

[King Charles I addressing the court, January 1649] Charles I was influenced by his father, James I, in thinking that

God granted him the power he needed to be the monarch of England

[Thomas Hobbes, Leviathan, 1651/John Locke, Second Treatise of Civil Government: Vindication for the Glorious Revolution, 1690] Thomas Hobbes and John Locke would most likely agree on which of the following statements?

Governments originate from the consent of the people

Compared with their counterparts in Russia, the English peasantry of the early 1700s

Had a greater chance of improving their social and economic position

The Dutch Republic rose to prominence in seventeenth-century Europe because of which of the following factors

Its shipping and commerce

Which of the following was the greatest weakness of Louis XIV according to many historians, and probably his dying declaration?

Louis XIV spent over two thirds of his reign at war and much of it was fruitless

The monarchs of England, France, and Spain all used which of the following in their efforts to centralize power and forge national unity?

Royal councils and bureaucrats drawn mostly from the middle-class

[Frederick William, Elector of Prussia, proclamation, 1685] The main reason the Elector of Prussia admitted Huguenots into his country after the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes in 1685 was?

Strengthen what was mostly a poor agriculture state with manufacturing and trade

[Philipp von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism, 1684] The economic philosophy behind mercantilism is that

There is a finite amount of resources that must be fought for and hoarded

[Jacques-Benigne Bossuet, 1678] Which of the following political philosophers would be most likely to agree with Bossuet about the proper power structure for a nation's government?

Thomas Hobbes, who wrote Leviathan

[Philipp von Hornick, Austria Over All If She Only Will: Mercantilism, 1684] According to von Hornick, the goals of this economic system included all of the following EXCEPT

Trading with other countries

The invasion of England by the Dutch William of Orange and Mary

Was a fairly civil invasion with little bloodshed because William and Mary were welcomed into England by the majority of citizens