WS

Question 1

What is Divine Right?

Answer 1

The justification of a Monarchs power, “God put me here.

Question 2

Royal Blood?

Answer 2

Something is different with the DNA of a Noble that makes them better- mixing it with a commoner would taint it.

Question 3

Dynasty

Answer 3

A family that rules the throne for more than 2-3 generations. sometimes would mix into their own family to continue the dynasty.

Question 4

What is Humanism?

Answer 4

the belief in human achievement and expertise. That we can produce great things! it’s very secular. we matter more than we think we do.

Question 5

What is Secularism?

Answer 5

the detachment of religion.

Question 6

What are Clergy’s?

Answer 6

Religious leaders

Question 7

What are Nobles?

Answer 7

political leaders- kings, queens, rich land owners.

Question 8

What was the Enlightenment?

Answer 8

Challenging the privileges of Nobles in different ideas. this included thoughts of humanism, popular sovereignty, deism (reason and religion meet), reason (the ability to think and figure things out by yourself), rationality, order, and natural rights (life, liberty, and right to own property, made by god and nobles are taking this away from us.) The discussions of these things were at salons, by philosophes. They create the Social Contract

Question 9

who were the most important philosophes?

Answer 9

Thomas Hobbes- believed that all humans are born evil, n our base nature is that we are selfish. we’ll only do what interests us.
John Locke- believed that all people are born with Tabular Rassa (Latin for clean slate.) It the people’s actions around us that form who we are.

Question 10

The Social Contract

Answer 10

That it is the governments job to protect our natural rights. The people’s job, in turn, is to give consent to be ruled by the government by following the law. If you break the law, you break the contract, and the law is able to deny you one of your natural rights. (Your speeding, the government can take property by taxing.) If the government doesn’t obey the social contract, and takes away life, liberty, or property without reason, you have the right and should overthrow the government.

Question 11

What is a benevolent monarch?

Answer 11

An idea created by Thomas Hobbes, an idea that one person should be chosen to rule the country, and they should be the best, kindest, and smartest ruler. this is because he believed that a ruler is needed to keep others in line.

Question 12

What is popular sovereignty.

Answer 12

An idea created by John Locke, directly against Thomas Hobbes. he believes that power to the people is needed to rule a country.

Question 13

What is an idea Thomas Hobbes and John Locke agree on?

Answer 13

to destroy feudalism and keep the social contract.

Question 14

who were the most important scientists of the scientific revolution

Answer 14

Copernicus, Kepler, and Galileo.

Question 15

What did Copernicus do?

Answer 15

proposed that the earth revolved around the sun. it contradicted catholic ideals, and created the heliocentric model.

Question 16

What was the scientific revolution

Answer 16

A challenge against the church, and the learning of the universe around us.

Question 17

What did Kepler do?

Answer 17

a German astronomer and mathematician. he invented the first telescope, and the three laws of planetary motion. He also learned that planets move faster in their orbits when they are closer to the sun, and the most important, that the earth and planets travel in elliptical orbits.

Question 18

What did Galileo do?

Answer 18

He proved the heliocentric theory, through the observation of Venus. Using his telescope, he found that it went through phases similar to the moon, and, through the light, proved the theory that the sun was in the center.

Question 19

What is a Limited Monarchy?

Answer 19

a mix of the monarchs, and parliament. the parliament is the common people. (not the working class) in pre-revolution Britain, the king had executive power, and parliament controlled money, and taxes.

Question 20

Where does the revolution come from?

Answer 20

the house of commons (parliament,) which creates the Puritans. They don’t like that the official religion of England is Anglican, since it is so similar to Catholic.

Question 21

What are Puritans/what do they believe?

Answer 21

They are protestant, and want to purify the Anglicans. they believe in predestination, and are fundamentalists. (they need it to be their way.)

Question 22

what is the second reason for the revolution?

Answer 22

the common people get taxed the most.

Question 23

Who was Queen Elizabeth?

Answer 23

She worked with parliament, and was a great ruler. after she dies, another family takes the throne called the Stuart Dynasty.

Question 24

Who was James I?

Answer 24

nobody tbh 💀.
the dad of Charles I.

Question 25

Who was Charles I?

Answer 25

he pissed people off, believer of the Divine right, like his dad, and the Anglican Church. He marries a French Catholic princess, (the people hated the french because they used to fight with them under Queen Elizabeth’s rule) He drains the treasury through multiple wars, (Scotland and Ireland- the British isles) He has to ask parliament for money, which he thinks is stupid, so he sells public land to nobles (like parks) in order to find money. this isnt enough, and when he is forced to ask money from parliament again, they ask him to sign a paper that permanently limits the amount of power he has. it is called the “Petition of Right” The king signs and ignores it, dissolving parliament for 11 years.

Question 26

Who were the Royalists?

Answer 26

Their nickname was the Cavaliers, and are basically Anglicans, rich people, and people who were loyal to the King.

Question 27

Who were the Middle Class?

Answer 27

They had the nickname Round heads, they choose that Kenny cut, not curls.

Question 28

Who was Oliver Cromwell

Answer 28

leader of the puritans, radicals, and roundheads. he wants to get rid of kings entirely.

Question 29

What was the New Model Army?

Answer 29

Oliver Cromwell, along with the roundheads, created an army where instead of paying to become a knight, you would have to earn it by proving your strength. the middle class pooled their money to get weapons for said army, and they win the war.

Question 30

how does King Charles parish?

Answer 30

he is executed in front of his people, and the rest of his supporters go into hiding.

Question 31

Who has rule over England after the King’s Death?

Answer 31

Oliver Cromwell, who runs parliament and the country for nine years. They create a puritan society. He created many laws revolving around this. no dancing, drinking, sporting events, or plays and theater.

Question 32

Where does Cromwell and Parliament invade?

Answer 32

Ireland, murdering all the Catholics and having a mass genocide.

Question 33

Who rules after Cromwell’s Death?

Answer 33

His son was meant to, but the people and him don’t ever put this into action. They go into something called the Restoration Period, and they invite Charles II to take the throne. He works with parliament, and everything is filled with sex drinking because they are free of oppression.

Question 34

What happens after Charles II dies?

Answer 34

His brother, James II, takes the throne, and acts like his father (Charles I) and grandfather (James I). He is promptly forced to flee to France.

Question 35

What was the Glorious Revolution?

Answer 35

The people search for a benevolent monarch, and end up choosing William, and his Wife Mary- the daughter of the BITCH that was just kicked out. they abandon their other throne in the Dutch republic, and they serve as joint monarchs. they share power with parliament, and, just to make sure, parliament creates the Bill of Rights to sign. (Which they do.) At the end, they create a Constitutional Monarchy, and it has stayed that way to this day.

Question 36

What were the laws that governed British Mercantilism?

Answer 36

The Navigation Acts, which entailed that American could only sell their materials to England. Smuggling happened a lot tho- and England was well aware, they just didn’t really care. (Until they did.)

Question 37

Who was John Hancock (hand cock lol)

Answer 37

He smuggled a lot ig, which meant that he was pretty much always like going against the Social Contract.

Question 38

What is Salutary Neglect?

Answer 38

Not caring about upholding the law, something that England was doing when Americans were smuggling.

Question 39

What were the Navigation Acts?

Answer 39

an attempt to stop people from smuggling things, since after the French and Indian War, England needed more money.

Question 40

What were the Writs of Assistance?

Answer 40

They had an Admiralty court, which meant that if you were caught, the British Naval Officer would decide your fate. This was in violation of your right to court- due process.

Question 41

What is Due Process?

Answer 41

A thought as the result of the Enlightenment- In order to deny someone their natural rights, you’d have to prove what they did in order to do so, have a proper trial, court hearing, and liberty.

Question 42

What is Habeas Corpus?

Answer 42

A right that protects against unlawful imprisonment/reason for doing something to the person who is suspected broke the law. it is related to due process.