Concepts 4.1

Question 1

abolitionism

Answer 1

movement that opposed slave trade and slavery

Question 2

atheism

Answer 2

the conviction that there is no god

Question 3

class

Answer 3

population group

Question 4

constitutional state

Answer 4

state in wich everyone has to follow the law, inculding the government

Question 5

Enlightenment

Answer 5

a movement of people who thought that reason could explain everything and that society should be based on reason

Question 6

estate system

Answer 6

system in which the population is divided into estates with their own rights and duties

Question 7

human right

Answer 7

rights that apply for everyone

Question 8

indirect taxes

Answer 8

taxes paid on the purchase of products

Question 9

rationally

Answer 9

reasonably, by using one´s intellect

Question 10

separation of powers (trias politica)

Answer 10

theory about the three parts of the power of states;

the legislative, the executive and the judiciary power.

Question 11

state of estates

Answer 11

a state based on estates

Question 12

time of wigs

Answer 12

The 18th Century

Question 13

western

Answer 13

West-European and North-American