Vocab Chapter 2

Question 1

What is democracy?

Answer 1

a government that is controlled by the peope who live under it

Question 2

What are civil rights?

Answer 2

the rights of a citizen

Question 3

What is the Magna Carta?

Answer 3

the Great Charter which guaranteed the English people certain civil rights

Question 4

What is a monarch?

Answer 4

the king or queen

Question 5

What is a civil war?

Answer 5

A war between citizens of a country

Question 6

What is a republic?

Answer 6

a country without a monarch, such as the USA

Question 7

What is a constitutional monarchy?

Answer 7

a monarchy in which the monarch rules according to the constitution and laws of the nation

Question 8

What is the Gulf Stream?

Answer 8

a warm ocean current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico north along the coast of the United States and then east to Europe

Question 9

What is the Spanish Armarda?

Answer 9

a great fleet of ships sent by Spain in 1588 to invade England

Question 10

What does ‘to colonize’ mean?

Answer 10

to settle in and control the lands of others

Question 11

What is an entrepreneur?

Answer 11

a person who runs a buisness, taking the isk in order to make the profit

Question 12

What is a guild?

Answer 12

a medieval association of craftsmen or tradsemen which upheld standards and protected its members

Question 13

What is a protestant?

Answer 13

any Christian not belonging to the Roman Catholic or Orthodox Eastern Church

Question 14

What is a congregation?

Answer 14

an assembly of people who gather for religious worship

Question 15

What is the Church of England?

Answer 15

the established church in England, headed by the monarch

Question 16

What does elaborate mean?

Answer 16

decorated, ceremonial

Question 17

What does ‘to dissent’ mean?

Answer 17

to differ in opinion, disagree, refuse to conform to the established Church

Question 18

What is a Calvanist?

Answer 18

a follower of the teachings of John Calvin, a leader of the Protestant Reformation

Question 19

What does ‘to tolerate’ mean?

Answer 19

to allow people to live, think, or worship according to their own beliefs

Question 20

What is original sin?

Answer 20

in traditional Christian belief, the state of sin in which all humans live because Adam and Even disobeyed God

Question 21

What is hysteria?

Answer 21

a state of uncontrolled excitement

Question 22

What does “to duck” mean?

Answer 22

to plunge suddenly under water and out again

Question 23

What is an absolute monarch?

Answer 23

a king, queen, emperor, or empress with unlimited power

Question 24

What is slovenly?

Answer 24

untidy, dirty, careless in dress, appearance, and habits

Question 25

What does to exalt mean?

Answer 25

to place high in rank, honour, or power

Question 26

What does to debase mean?

Answer 26

to make low in rank, honor or power

Question 27

What is a tyrant?

Answer 27

a cruel and unjust ruler or person

Question 28

What does incompetent mean?

Answer 28

lacking ability

Question 29

What does to ally mean?

Answer 29

to combine with for a special purpose

Question 30

What does to compromise mean?

Answer 30

to settle a dispute, with both sides giving up a part of what they demand

Question 31

What is an extravagance?

Answer 31

careless and lavish spending, wastefulness

Question 32

What is a favourite?

Answer 32

a person or thing liked better than others, a person treated specially

Question 33

What does to alienate mean?

Answer 33

to cause someone to become indifferent or hostile

Question 34

What does to despise mean?

Answer 34

to hate, to scorn, to deny respect

Question 35

What is ship money?

Answer 35

In earlier times, coastal towns had to supply the king with ships, or their value in money. Charles 1 made all towns and landowners pay ship money

Question 36

What is tonnage and poundage?

Answer 36

a customs duty or tax collected on the tons and pouunds of goods coming into or leaving a country

Question 37

What does to billet mean?

Answer 37

to require homeowners to provide food and lodging for soldiers

Question 38

What is title?

Answer 38

a name showing a person's rank and position in life. Charles 1 forced anyone with property worth forty pounds or more to pay him a large fee to become a knight

Question 39

What is the Court of Star Chamber

Answer 39

a royal court in which people had no legal rights

Question 40

What is satire?

Answer 40

a literary work in which corruption, stupidity, foolishness or abuses are held up to ridicule and contempt

Question 41

What is seditious libel?

Answer 41

false and malicious statements against the monarch which are treasonable

Question 42

What is pillory?

Answer 42

a device consisting of a wooden board with holes for the had and arms, in which offeners were exposed in public scorn

Question 43

What is a writ of habeus corpus?

Answer 43

an order requiring that a prisoner be taken to court to decide if he or she is being imprisoned lawfully

Question 44

What is a Presbyterian?

Answer 44

a Protestant church governed by presbyters (elders)

Question 45

What is a covenant?

Answer 45

agreement

Question 46

What is a dilemma?

Answer 46

a difficult choice

Question 47

What are the Crown Jewels?

Answer 47

jewels used but not owned byt the royal family

Question 48

What is the militia?

Answer 48

citizens who are not regular soldiers, but who are trained to act as soldiers in times of emergency

Question 49

What is a lobster tail helmet?

Answer 49

a soldier's helmet with joined plates on the back to protect the neck

Question 50

What is regicide?

Answer 50

a person who kills, or participates in the killing of a king

Question 51

What is a Test Act?

Answer 51

an act forbidding anyone except members of the Church of England from holding political office or entering the professions

Question 52

What does To Abdicate mean?

Answer 52

to give up or renounce