Absolutism and Enlightenment Quiz Review

What event lead people to start using more logic and reasoning and questioning faith.

• Divine Right of Kings

• Enlightenment

• Scientific Revolution

• French Revolution

Rule of Law

• kings can make rules, but don't have to follow them

• tiktok influencers don't have to follow the law

• rules apply to everyone equally

• the laws only apply to poor people

Which important document limited the power of the monarchy?

• English Bill of Rights

• American Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen

Time period where the ideas of philosophers lead to governments protecting the rights of citizens.

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• Absolutism

• French Revolution

Divine Right of Kings

• Monarchs have limited power and are controlled by an elected government

• Citizens vote on all matters

• Citizens choose people to represent them

• Monarchs power comes from God.

What idea did the Enlightenment support?

• Obey all monarchs

• Keeping society the same way it has always been

• Following the rules of religion and the church

• Using logic and reasoning

What was an enlightened absolutist?

• A monarch that gave up their power and control

• A monarch that made their government more complicated

• A monarch that embraced some ideas of the philosophers

• A monarch that only relied on the church

What Enlightenment ideas did NOT influence the Declaration of Independence?

• Rosseau's Social Contract

• King Louis XIV's Divine Right of Kings

• Montisquieu's Separation of Powers

• Locke's Life, Liberty and Property

"Natural Rights" as outlined by John Locke are

• Life, Liberty, Property

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Women and equal to men

Who believed in dividing government power into 3 brances known as separation of powers.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire