Absolutism and Enlightenment Unit Test

Catherine the Great

Fought Poland and the Ottoman empire to gain land in Estern Europe, won access to the Black Sea, Sent explorers across the Bering sea to North America

Peter the Great

Fought sweeden to gain access to the Baltic, Sent explorers across the Bering sea to North America

Henry V

Goal was a "chicken in every pot." Was a Huguenot who converted to Catholicism

What is the correct sequence of events related to Spain's rise as a major world power? Place the earliest event at the top and the latest event at the bottom.

Spain claims colonies in the Americas -> The Spanish take gold and silver from the Americas -> Gold and silver fund Spain's "Golden Century" ->

Why was the period from 1550 to 1650 called Spain's "golden age"?

Spanish rulers funded the arts with gold and silver from Spain's American colonies.

How were the ideas of Enlightenment thinkers influenced by the Scientific Revolution?

The Enlightenment thinkers were influcenced by the Scientific revolution because the Scientific Revolution proved that each human had a mind of their own

Adam Smith

The best way to for a nation to increase wealth is to remove trading borders

Which of the following was a direct result of the English Civil War?

The execution of Charles I

Baron de Montesquieu

Tyranny is unavoidable when one person holds too much power

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

When societies form governments, people give up some of their rights for law and order

Which Enlightenment thinker believed most strongly that women should enjoy the same rights as men?

Wollenstonecraft

"There never will be complete equality until women themselves help to make laws and elect lawmakers."

Wollstonecraft

How did Charles I show his intention of ignoring the 1628 Petition of Right?

by dissolving Parliament

Cardinal Richelieu

ruled France as chief adviser to the king reduced the power of local nobles

Support of the arts by Louis XIV

supported schools that taught the arts and sciences, expanded royal palaces, hired famous architects to design and decorate royal palaces, supported French writers of plays

Which of the following was an effect of the Glorious Revolution?

the passage of the English Bill of Rights

Which of the following factors contributed the most to the increase of Spanish power in Europe in the late 1500s?

the steady supply of wealth flowing into Spain from its colonies in the Americas

How was Adam Smith's position about the necessity of free trade and free markets different from how many national economies operated during this period?

Adam Smith believed that opening free trade would benifit both parties, and that the global econmy would benifit from free trade.

Maria Theresa

Improved the nation's tax system, supported the use of vaccienes for illnesses

How were the reigns of James I and Charles I different from those of the Tudors before them?

James I and Charles I clashed with Parliament.

Frederick II

Led his armies to victory over Austria, allowed freedom of speech

"The state of monarchy is the supremest thing upon earth; for kings are not only God's lieutenants upon earth, and sit upon God's throne, but even by God himself are called gods."

Louis XIV

"The [collection] of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands . . . may justly be [called] the very definition of tyranny. . . it will be proper to investigate the sense in which the [protection] of liberty requires that the three great departments of power should be separate and distinct." James Madison was the fourth president of the United States and one of the nation's Founding Fathers. Which Enlightenment thinker most likely influenced the ideas presented in this quotation by Madison? Explain what this thinker believed and how his ideas relate to the quotation.

Montesquieu. His ideas relate to the quotation because he came up with the theory of separation of powers.

Drag and drop the events to arrange them from the event that came first to the event that came last.

Parliment asks Charles II to become king -> James II becomes king of England -> Parliment urges Mary and William II to force the king out of power -> The English King is overthrown

John Locke

People have rights as soon as they are born...

Drag and drop the events related to Peter the Great's efforts to modernize Russia. Place the earliest event at the top and the latest event at the bottom.

Peter took a long trip to western europe -> Peter began a number of reforms -> Peter built a new capital city