Constitutionalism
Type of government in which the King is limited by a Constitution or document. Usually shares power with a legislative body.
What is a Constitutional Monarchy?
Theory in which God placed the monarchy on the throne allowing them to hold all power of government.
What is Divine Right Theory?
Who is John Locke?
What are the Bourgeoise?
What is the Agricultural Revolution?
Family that challenged the English Parliament which led to a civil war.
What is the Stuart Family?
Peter the Great's goal that shifted the culture of Russia to be more European with fashion, shipbuilding, modernizing cities, shaving his subjects beards, and even how he trained his army.
What is Westernization?
A place where the more common / middle class would meet to discuss politics and philosophical ideas.
Name of the Legislative Assembly that included members of the three social classes within France that had unfair voting practices.
What is the General Estates?
Type of economic system that emerges as a result of the Industrial Revolution being a private endeavor with little government interference at the time leading to worker exploitation.
What is Capitalism?
War between the Roundheads/ Parliamentarians led by Oliver Cromwell against the Royalist / Cavilers support by the Monarchy.
Glorified the power, prestige and greatness of Louis XIV of France with its magnificent statues, art and architecture with the finest materials in the style of Baroque.
What is the Palace of Versailles?
Meeting that sought to undo the chaos of the French Revolution and Napoleonic wars that ravaged Europe. Categorized by Conservative ideology.
What is the Congress of Vienna?
Journalist that expose the tragic working and living conditions of the lower class during the Industrial Revolution.
Who are Muckrakers?
What is the Glorious Revolution?
Cardinal that paved the path for absolutism in France for Louis XIII.
Who is Cardinal Richelieu?
Political group responsible for the radical phase of the revolution in which equality and civic virtue were forced with terror of being beheaded by the guillotine.
Who are the Jacobins?
Group of workers that broke into factories and destroyed machinery in retaliation of the working conditions and loss of their skilled jobs.
Who are the Luddites of England?
Nickname given to Parliament after it was purged by Oliver Cromwell. They placed Charles I on trial and ultimately executed him.
What is the Rump Parliament?
Passed by Louis XIV that demonstrated his absolute control over the people by revoking the Edict of Nantes which gave religious freedom to the Huguenots.
What is the Edict of Fontainebleau?
War fought between Prussia and Austria over Maria Theresa rights to the throne.
What is the War of Austrian Succession?
Policy enacted by Napoleon Bonaparte that gave uniformity and equality before the law (although not for women in the same sense as for men).
What is Napoleonic Code?
Prior to the Industrial Revolution, this practice was in open-field systems that allowed widows and elderly to pick up scraps of the harvest on the fields as a mean to survive.
What is gleaning?