The Enlightenment and Absolute Monarchies

The Enlightenment

by jennifer Smith

​Let's check how you are doing

​On the next set of questions answer how you feel

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People are born good and kind.

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People are naturally selfish and greedy.

• Strongly disagree

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• Strongly agree

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All humans are born free and equal.

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A powerful government is needed to provide order and stability.

• Strongly Agree

• Strongly disagree

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People have the right to overthrow the governement that doesn't protect their freedoms and rights.

• Strongly Agree

• Strongly Disagree

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​What was the era of Absolutism?

​A time when the kings and Catholic Church were accepted as Absolute and never questioned.

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​Absolute Monarch or Absolute King

​Ruler with complete authority (power) over the lives of his people.

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The era of Absolute Control= Age of Absolutism​

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​Constitutional Monarchy-

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​Limits to what the king can do.

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​Citizens have protected rights.

Multiple Select

Identify the characteristics of an absolute ruler

• rulers who held all the power in the country

• ruled by divine right, believed power came from god.

• rulers that respected peoples rights

• ruled with no checks and balances from any other part of the nation or governement

• rulers that established Constitutional Monarchies

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Open Ended

How did some Enlightenment thinkers help create the Constitution?

Multiple Choice

Who thought that the best type of government shoud be by absolute monarchs to ensure order and enforce obedience.

• John Lock

• Thomas Hobbs

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Multiple Choice

Natural Law is defined as

• laws made by government

• laws are made by natural rights, given to you at birth

Multiple Choice

Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness are included in the Declaration of Independence. These are

• natural rights

• rights given to you by the government

Open Ended

Why should the governemet be divided in different branches?

Multiple Choice

Why should Church and State be divided?

• Reinforce the right of people to live their faith, with fear of government coercion.

• Reinforce the legal right of a free people to freely live their faith, even in public; without fear of government coercion.

• Force the rights of all individuals to live how the Government wants.

• The obligation of doing what you need for the church

Multiple Choice

Mary Wollstonecraft was the mother of this famous author?

• Mary Shelley

• William Shakespeare

• Thomas More

• Catherine de' Medici