Absolutism and Constitutionalism

Question 1

When a state has a monopoly over the instruments of justice and the use of force in a country.

Answer 1

Sovereignty

Question 2

A system where a monarch wields supreme power and claims to have to answer only to God.

Answer 2

Absolutism

Question 3

A balance between governmental powers and the rights of a government’s subjects.

Answer 3

Constitutionalism

Question 4

The belief that a King is God’s chosen instrument on Earth and answerable to God alone

Answer 4

Divine Right of Kings.

Question 5

A French monarch strongly influenced by a certain Cardinal, who led his nation through the Thirty Years War.

Answer 5

Louis XIII

Question 6

The aforementioned Cardinal who dominated Louis XIII’s royal council and helped consolidate royal power. Also founded the Academie Francaise.

Answer 6

Cardinal Richelieu

Question 7

The embodiment of French absolutism, and longest-serving European monarch, who revoked the Edict of Nantes

Answer 7

Louis XIV (The Sun King)

Question 8

The last Tudor monarch of England, successor to Elizabeth I.

Answer 8

James I

Question 9

One branch of England’s bicameral parliament that controlled taxation and was originally filled with knights and burgesses.

Answer 9

House of Commons

Question 10

A clandestine collusion conjured up by a cadre of Catholics led by Guy Fawkes to blow up Parliament

Answer 10

Gunpowder Plot

Question 11

The son of James I whose supposed sympathies to Catholicism and baiting of the House of Commons led to his being overthrown from the English throne.

Answer 11

Charles I

Question 12

Thought not the Magna Carta, this document set out to define the rights of English subjects, such as Parliament’s authority to tax.

Answer 12

Petition of Right (1628)

Question 13

The Parliament that served between 1640 and 1660 and did much to limit Charles I’s power.

Answer 13

Long Parliament

Question 14

A list of grievances presented to Charles I from the English parliament in 1641

Answer 14

Grand Remonstrance

Question 15

A conflict between Parliamentary and Royalist forces that ended with a victory for the Parliamentarians.

Answer 15

English Civil War

Question 16

Another name for the period between Charles I’s execution and Charles II’s ascension to the throne.

Answer 16

Interregnum

Question 17

Leader of the Parliamentary forces and Lord Protector of England.

Answer 17

Oliver Cromwell

Question 18

A name given to the ostensibly republican government of Cromwell.

Answer 18

Protectorate

Question 19

The site of a Cromwell-ordered massacre of rebelling Irish Catholics.

Answer 19

Drogheda

Question 20

Laws requiring that English goods be transported on English ships.

Answer 20

Navigation Acts

Question 21

The return of a king to the Throne of England and the period shortly thereafter.

Answer 21

The Restoration

Question 22

The King who was restored.

Answer 22

Charles II

Question 23

A law passed by Parliament in place of the Declaration of Indulgence requiring public office holders to swear an oath of loyalty to the Anglican Church.

Answer 23

Test Act

Question 24

The successor to Charles II. (Hint: NOT Charles III.)

Answer 24

James II

Question 25

James II’s attempt to grant Catholics in England freedom of religion.

Answer 25

Declaration of Indulgence.

Question 26

The bloodless deposition of James II

Answer 26

Glorious Revolution 1688

Question 27

A document written by Parliament following the Glorious Revolution enumerating certain guarantees for all English citizens.

Answer 27

Bill of Rights (1689)

Question 28

Leaders of England after the Glorious Revolution of 1688

Answer 28

William and Mary