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Chapter 12 Test
Review for Chapter 12 Test
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Government does not grant rights; it ________ them. | Protects |
| Rousseau wrote, “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains.” What kind of government did he favor in order to insure greater freedom? | a popularly elected government |
| ... that they are endowed by their Creator with certain inalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness Which Enlightenment thinker most directly influenced the notion expressed in this passage? | John Locke |
| Give an example of the legislative branch checking the judicial branch in the U.S. government? | Congress rejects a nominee to a federal court. |
| Who paid more taxes, the First or Third Estate? | The Third Estate |
| What is one way that the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen was similar to the Declaration of Independence? | It affirmed that the function of government was to protect individual rights. |
| “Terror is only justice prompt, severe and inflexible; it is then an emanation of virtue;”—Maximilien Robespierre, 1794 The viewpoint expressed in this quotation was most directly put into action through the________________ | guillotine |
| “General Famine and General Winter, rather than Russian bullets, have conquered the Grand Army.”—French general Michel Ney What was an immediate result of the event described in the above quotation? | Napoleon's enemies renewed their fight against France. |
| What was Peter the Great's goal? | Increase Russia's military might |
| Given an example of a monarch supporting Enlightenment reform? | Joseph II abolishing serfdom in Austria |
| "Manufacturing and commercial monopolies owe their origin not to a tendency capitalist economy but to governmental interventionist policy directed against free trade and laissez-faire."— This quote reflects the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker? | Adam Smith |
| "The people rushed against the place . . .They took all the arms, carried the Governor and Lieutenant governor to the Greve, cut off their heads, and set them through the city in triumph to the Palais royal." The event Thomas Jefferson is describing is? | The French Revolution |
| Which group made up the "Second Estate" under France's ancien régime? | The nobility |
| Which group in France would have been most likely to support the Reign of Terror? | sans-coulottes |
| This is characterized by complete control over the government and the lives of the people. | Absolute Monarchy |
| Created the palace of Versailles. | Louis XIV |
| This was the symbol of the power of the Sun King | Versailles |
| Authority to rule was giving to them by God | Divine Right |
| Was responsible for modernizing Russia | Peter the Great |
| One who rules with unlimited authority | auotcrat |
| Dissenters who clashed with the Church of England | Puritans |
| This limited the power of the monarchs and prevented any Roman Catholic from sitting on the throne | English Bill of Rights |
| System where English rulers had to obey the laws and govern with Parliament | Limited Monarchy |
| The leader of the majority party in the House of Commons | Prime Minister |
| Unchanging principles that govern all human conduct | Natural Law |
| The right to vote | suffrage |
| Social Classes in France | Estates |
| Hit and run raids, ambush attacks | Guerrilla Warfare |
| Military hero with brilliant victories for France | Napoleon |
| Power is divided between the national government and the states | Federal Republic |
| French symbol of tyranny that prisoners were released from | Bastille |
| Trade with little government interference | Laissez Faire |
| Was bitterly resented by colonists as an infringement on their rights | Stamp Act |
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