Chapter 20 Flashcards
English civil war
Parliament did not want an absolute monarch
King v.s. Parliament
Universal manhood sufferage
The right for all me to vote
Cavaliers
The king and his supporters
Roundheads
Parliament and their supporters
Commonwealth
Not under the control of a king
Glorious revolution
When England kicked out their current king and summoned William of Orange (Dutch) to be there new king
Limited constitutional monarchy
The king needs to share his power with parliament
John Locke
Says that people are good and don’t need a very strict government
Thomas Hobbes
Said that people were not good and needed guiding. A strong ruler is needed to control people into doing the right thing
English Sea Dogs
Hired English pirates, they stole gold from the Spanish
Oliver Cromwell
Led the Roundheads, he became the protector of the people
The Enlightenment
A time of critical thinking and philosophes
Voltaire
Invented concept of electricity and the battery
Montesquieu
Write a book called “the spirit of the laws” which spoke about a perfect government in his eyes.
Wollstonecraft
First woman’s-rights activists