Unit 1 Review

A monarch is subject to no earthly authority, deriving the right to rule directly from the will of God.

• Divine Right

• Versailles

• Absolutism

• Czar

The principal royal residence of France from 1682 under Louis XIV until the start of the French Revolution in 1789 under Louis XVI

• Absolutism

• Versailles

• Divine Right

• Czar

a political theory that absolute power should be vested in one or more rulers

• Divine Right

• Absolutism

• Versailles

• Renaissance

Controls every aspect of life

Divine Right

Right to rule is passed through the blood line

Only authority

These are all...

• Effects of Absolutism

• Causes of Absolutism

• Characteristics of Absolutism

Who was Louis XIV?

• This man promoted Westernization campaigns to make his country more European

• This man demonstrated absolutism by building Versailles as a way of distracting the French nobility

• This man believed that humans were naturally good and would not need a large government to rule over them.

• This man did not believe that the average person was intelligent enough to participate in government, which led him to believe that an enlightened monarchy was best.

What does Absolute Ruler mean?

• a ruler who is sure of their power
• A ruler who is involved in all aspects of government and public life
• someone who has to answer to a separate government body
• a ruler who is absolute

Lawyers, craftsmen, merchants, and commoners make up which estate?

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Estates General

The nobles made up which Estate?

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Estates General

The clergy and church officials made up which estate?

• First Estate
• Second Estate
• Third Estate
• Estates General

Which of the following was a cause of the French Revolution?

• unequal tax burdens; the Third Estate paid all of the taxes
• a growing French Empire
• a law granting peasants more freedom
• equal land ownership