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WHA Unit 3 Review
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Why did King Phillip invade England? | To stop the sea dogs and return England to the Catholic Church. |
| Who were the Huguenots? | French Calvinist Protestants who challenged the French monarchy's idea of having one king, one law, and one religion in France. |
| Because absolute monarchs ruled by ____________, their power was not supposed to be challenged. | divine right |
| What was the Edict of Nantes? | It gave Huguenots limited freedom of worship for their religion instead of having to follow the monarch's religion. |
| What did Louis XIV want to accomplish? | He wanted to build up the military and expand French territory. |
| The War of Austrian Succession was caused by | the rivalry between the Hapsburgs and the Hohenzollerns. |
| Who was the first European monarch to be formally tried and executed by a court of law? | Charles I |
| What was the War of Spanish Succession fought over? | In order to prevent France and Spain from being ruled by members of the same family. |
| A monarchy that is limited by law is called a | constitutional monarchy |
| What was the Petition of Right? | d document that placed limits on the king's power: could not levy taxes without Parliament's approval, could not imprison anyone without legal justification or force citizens to house soldiers or declare martial law in peacetime. |
| Who led the English government after the execution of Charles I? | Oliver Cromwell |
| The term for a Russian monarch | czar |
| This czar wanted to modernize and westernize Russia | Peter the Great |
| How did Catherine show she was an absolute monarch? | by strengthening the monarchy's authority in rural areas and also having a man named Pugachev beheaded for claiming to be Peter III and causing unrest |
| What problems did Charles V have in his attempt to keep Europe Roman Catholic? | Growing Protestant movement threatened his influence, confronted Martin Luther & declared him an outlaw, rebellions against Catholic rulers. He signed the Peace of Augsburg in 1555-gave German princes ability to decide on Protestant or Catholic |
| A new way of thinking that emerged in the mid-1500s | Scientific Revolution |
| Who were the authorities on knowledge and information before the Scientific Revolution? | The Church and ancient scholars |
| Who proposed the geocentric theory that earth was the center of the universe? | Aristotle |
| Denis Diderot wrote this to promote knowledge. | Encyclopedia |
| The Enlightenment reforms of Emperor Joseph II were opposed by the church and the nobility in this country: | Austria |
| philosophers of the Enlightenment were called | philosophes |
| How did most Enlightenment thinkers view women? | With traditional views of having roles of wife and mother and only enough education for those roles. |
| This was known as the Age of Reason | The Engligthenment |
| What new approach allowed scholars to gain new scientific knowledge? | scientific method |
| Believed people had a right to overthrow a government that does not protect their natural rights | John Locke |
| Who believed that people were naturally good? Hobbes or Rousseau? | Jean Jaques Rousseau believed people were naturally good. |
| Believed that without government people's lives were "solitary, poor, nasty, brutish, and short. | Thomas Hobbes |
| People should agree to give up some freedoms to a strong leader in exchange for the peace, safety, and order that government could provide | Thomas Hobbes' social contract |
| How did the French and Indian War affect the American colonies? | It caused Britain to levy taxes on the colonists since removing the French benefited them. Thus Britain wanted the colonies to pay for the cost of the war. |
| Why did American colonists object to the Stamp Act? | They objected to taxes levied by the British Parliament without having representation in Parliament. |
| When William and Mary I came to the throne of England this was known as | the Glorious Revolution |
| Who wrote the first draft of the Declaration of Independence? | Thomas Jefferson |
| What Enlightenment ideas did the Declaration of Independence express? | That citizens had important civil rights such as the right to trial, election, judicial system, and that they had the right to overthrow a government that did not protect those rights. |
| Who led the American troops in the War for Independence (American Revolution)? | George Washington |
| Why was the Bill of Rights added to the Constitution? | Because some people argued that the Constitution did not protect the rights of citizens. |
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