Vocabulary Chapter 1

Question 1

Democracy

Answer 1

Definition: A government that the citizens rule
Significance: It gives society a voice

Question 2

Civil rights

Answer 2

Definition: Rights of a citizen
Significance: Every person has rights

Question 3

Magna carta

Answer 3

Definition: The great charter that guaranteed the english people certain civil rights
Significance: Someone has to guarantee the people their civil rights.

Question 4

Republic

Answer 4

Definition: Country without a ruler nor a king
Significance: People rule them selves the way they think is right

Question 5

Constitutional monarchy

Answer 5

Definition: A monarchy in which the monarch rules according to the constitution and laws of the nation
Significance: It is better than a strict monarchy

Question 6

Protestant

Answer 6

Definition: Christian that does no belong to the Roman Catholic or Orthodox eastern church
Significance: Separation

Question 7

Church of England

Answer 7

Definition: Established church the is lead by the monarch.
Significance: Monarch leading people

Question 8

Calvinist

Answer 8

Definition: A follower of the beliefs of john calvin
Significance: Believing in something that someone they trust believes in

Question 9

Absolute monarch

Answer 9

Definition: A leader or a king with unlimited power
Significance: Ruling everything with no one stopping the

Question 10

Ship money:

Answer 10

Definition: Money that is paid to the king by landowners
Significance: So that king can receive money

Question 11

Tonnage and poundage

Answer 11

Definition: A custom tax that is collected on the pounds of stuff leaving or entering the country
Significance: So that the government could earn money

Question 12

To billet

Answer 12

Definition: Homeowners providing soldiers with food and lodging.
Significance: So that soldiers can be supported during war without paying

Question 13

Title

Answer 13

Definition: A name that shows a persons rank in a society
Significance: So that others will know how powerful or rich you are

Question 14

Court of star chamber

Answer 14

Definition: A court room which people had no legal rights in
Significance: To ensure the fair enforcement of laws against powerful people

Question 15

Writ of habeus corpus

Answer 15

Definition: An order that is required by the prisoner to go to court to decide if he was arrested lawfully
Significance: So that the person which is the prisoner would have his basic rights not taken away

Question 16

Oliver Cromwell

Answer 16

Oliver Cromwell is hated in Ireland for his actions .

He was a religious freak who tried impose his will upon people and nations and for that he created untold misery

Question 17

John Locke

Answer 17

John Locke was an English philosopher who believed people have the ability to reason and make good decisions and government is supposed to rule upon peoples approval

Question 18

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 18

He believed that humans should give up their right of freedom and let a dictator or have an oligarchy that runs the country.

Question 19

Baron De Monstesqueu

Answer 19

Baron de Montesquieu believed the best form of government was one where power was separated into different branches, King, Parliament and Courts

Question 20

Voltaire

Answer 20

Voltaire believed that human beings are basically evil and need to be treated that way

Question 21

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 21

Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that society had the right to have a new government if they see the current not good