12: Absolutism & Enlightenment Unit Test

Name:

Class:

• Period 1
• Period 6

ballot in which voters have a direct say on an issue

• plebiscite
• abdicate
• suffrage
• legitimacy

ornate style of art architecture popular in the 1600s and 1700s

• baroque
• censor
• rococo
• boyar

absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change

• enlightened despot
• limited monarchy
• faction
• divine right

system in which each branch of a government has the power to monitor and limit the actions of the other two

• checks and balances
• social contract
• natural rights
• balance of power

limited government based on the separation of powers and a system of checks and balances

• popular sovereignty
• natural rights
• federal republic
• limited monarchy

personal, elegant style of art and architecture made popular during the mid-1700s that featured designs with the shapes of leaves, shells and flowers

• rococo
• censorship
• salon
• baroque

government in which ruling power belongs to a few people

• oligarchy
• monarchy
• democracy
• autocracy

give up or step down from power

• abdicate
• plebiscite
• suffrage
• sans-culottes