Unit 3: Absolutism and Constitutionalism Flashcards
Improvements associated with the Agricultural Revolution of the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries began in
the Low Countries and Britain
Which of the following cities dominated European trade and finance in the early seventeenth century?
Amsterdam
Which of the following was an economic policy of Louis XIV’s finance minister, Jean-Baptiste Colbert?
Establishing detailed manufacturing codes to improve the quality of French export goods
“Kings are justly called gods for that they exercise a manner or resemblance of Divine power upon Earth.”
Which of the following was most likely to agree with this statement?
James I of England
A controversial aspect of the Agricultural Revolution in eighteenth-century England was the transformation of common land into private land through the process known as
enclosure
Which of the following was an important consequence of the Glorious Revolution of 1688-1689 ?
Limits were put on the power of the English monarchy.
In seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Prussia, the Junkers supported the monarchy and served in the army in return for
virtually absolute power over their serfs
By the early seventeenth century, which of the following European nations was the greatest commercial power in Europe?
The Netherlands
The establishment and growth of St. Petersburg during the early eighteenth century was part of Peter the Great’ s attempt to do which of the following?
Remake Russian institutions to be as effective as those in western Europe
The French Fronde is best described as the
revolt over increasing centralization of royal power
The most important political and military result of the Thirty Years’ War and the Peace of Westphalia was the
rise of France as a great power
A major result of the War of the Spanish Succession (1701-1713) and the Treaty of Utrecht (1713-1714) was to
prevent France from upsetting the balance of power
Which of the following is an accurate characterization of England in the period 1688-1715 ?
A constitutional monarchy controlled by an aristocratic oligarchy
The leadership of the Dutch revolts (1566-1648) sought all of the following EXCEPT
an alliance with the English Catholics
“That the pretended powers of suspending of laws or the execution of laws by regal authority without consent of Parliament is illegal.
That levying money for or to the use of the Crown by pretence of prerogative without grant of Parliament for longer time or in other manner than the same is illegal.”
The provisions above from the English Bill of Rights were enacted in response to
James II’s attempts to dominate Parliament
