Citizenship Quiz 1

Question 1

What were some of Europe’s absolutists leaders

Answer 1

Philip II- Spain
Louis XIV- France
Peter I (The Great)- Russia
Frederick II (The Great)- Prussia

Question 2

What were the foundations (4) of English according to their constitution?

Answer 2

1215 Magna Carta
Early Parliament (Great Council)
House of Lords and House of Commons (mid 1500’s)
No need for a royal beaurocracy

Question 3

What two parties were growing tense around each other during the 1600’s in England?

Answer 3

Stuarts (absolutists) and Parliament

Question 4

What were England’s aspiring absolutists?? There are two. Also, what happened during this time? What war?

Answer 4

The Scottish Stuarts (James I (1603-1625) and “divine right”)
Charles I (rules without Parliament between 1629 and 1640, not regular taxation, liked Catholic ways)
Civil War started

Question 5

When was Englands’ Civil War?

Answer 5

1642-49

Question 6

What were the factions of this Civil War in England (four)?

Answer 6

Royalists and Parliamentarians
Catholics vs Anglicans/ Purists
English, Scotts, and Ireland
Commoners

Question 7

Did absolutism fail in England?

Answer 7

Yes

Question 8

What did the levelers believe in England?

Answer 8

all equality for citizens (leveler manifesto)

Question 9

What did the diggers believe in England?

Answer 9

everyone should be given free property rights

Question 10

What was the interregnum?

Answer 10

from republic (commonwealth) to a dictatorship (1649-1660)

Question 11

What happened during the revolution in England (four things)?

Answer 11

Monarchy was restored
Old problems under Charles II and James II
Ascent with William III and Mary II
The Bill of Rights (1689)

Question 12

What did the Bill of Rights say about England?

Answer 12

It suggested limited monarchy and representatives rules in the law of England.

Question 13

Who wrote the Second Treatise of Government?

Answer 13

John Locke in 1689

Question 14

What were the three estates in Medieval Europe?

Answer 14

Clergy (those that pray), those that fight (knights and noblemen), those that work (commoners)

Question 15

What was the distribution of power like in England?

Answer 15

Privileged elites, religious and noble

Question 16

What came about in England starting from the 1300’s

Answer 16

Parliament

Cortes in Castile and State General

Question 17

What were the three motives for opening the Atlantic

Answer 17

Christianity, profit, pride, and glory

Question 18

What country was known for being mercantilists?

Answer 18

Spain

Question 19

What was PSain all about while conquering land?

Answer 19

Crown control over its colonies
negative effects from mercantilism and trade monopolies
issues ith importing gold and silver

Question 20

What two things spurred capitalism?

Answer 20

Joint Stock Company and Private Investment (Dutch East India Company and the British East Indian Company)

Question 21

What are the three characteristics of modern citizenship?

Answer 21

Inclusive, democratic, and individualists

Question 22

what is it state?

Answer 22

organized political community, accepted borders, under a single government
different states depending on population size, size, and gov type

Question 23

What is feudalism?

Answer 23

hierarchical political, economic, and social system, based on reciprocal relationships with the social orders

Question 24

Early Middle Ages?

Answer 24

Short-lived political units, unstable borders fragments local power, personal loyalty between lords and vassals

Question 25

What was the hierarchical system in Middle Age Europe?

Answer 25

top to bottom: pope, kings, nobles/ church officials, peasants

Question 26

Did feudalism work against the centralization of the government?

Answer 26

Yes

Question 27

What were the three exceptions of this feudalist form of government in Europe?

Answer 27

Italian City States- traditional citizenship rolled around again Italian Rennaissance Chartered town in central and northern Europe

Question 28

What actions took place that pushed towards centralizations (six)

Answer 28

- challenging the feudalistic ways and hence unhinging the regular society - Ottoman Empire Threat - 14th-century disasters - Christianity divisions - religious wars - overseas empires

Question 29

What were the crises in Christianity in the 1500s-1600s

Answer 29

Reformation and counter-reformation | wars of religion

Question 30

What gave rise to centralized states?

Answer 30

absolutist monarchy constitutional monarchy these are two models for a new form of state government

Question 31

Centralized France- how did this happen?

Answer 31

there were many medieval provinces royal centralization Protestantism Jean Bodin and monarchial absolute power Edict of Nantes (1598)

Question 32

Who was the Absolutist in France at this time and how did this happen?

Answer 32

Louis XIV - noble revolt while he was a child - "I am the state"

Question 33

How did Louis XIV promote his idea of being absolutists?

Answer 33

taming nobility | using art to promote himself

Question 34

How did France take control of the economy?

Answer 34

Mercantilism positive trade balance Search the colonies in the New World

Question 35

Absolutism definition

Answer 35

system of government where the ruler has absolute power

Question 36

what kinds of reality disruptive the perfect absolutists situation?

Answer 36

Dependency on the bureaucracy | 48,000 officials for 20 m residents

Question 37

who had more power at the end of all this--- powerful monarchs or the old feudal orders?

Answer 37

monarchs

Question 38

there were critics of absolutism--- why is this?

Answer 38

social and economic changes

Question 39

What was Locke's Second Treatise of Government all about?

Answer 39

People should have the power to affect the government like the people should approve of the government, there should not just be the government ruling all.