What political change resulted from the events below?
English Civil War>England's Glorious Revolution>Adoption of the English Bill of Rights
England Established a constitutional monarchy
Who was the philosopher that promoted toleration and freedom of speech?
Voltaire
The writers of the U.S. Constitution created a government that is divided into three branches. Which constitutional principle does this reflect?
Separation of powers
What document most directly influenced the writers of the Declaration of the Rights of Man 1789?
Declaration of Independence
The American revolutionaries fought to gain independence from a colonial power, while the French revolutionaries revolted in order to
replace the existing _____political_______ and ____social____________ order.
The legal precedent established in England after King John signed the Magna Carta was that no leader may be _________ the ________ of the land.
above__ _law____
Montesquieu’s ideas influenced early leaders of the US by creating a government that had __
__a separation of powers_______________
What was Thomas Jefferson's reason for writing the Declaration of Independence?
To justify separation from Great Britain
What most contributed to the start of the French Revolution?
Rise of middle class that lacked political representation in government
One way that France and the American colonies differed at the onset of their revolutions was that France
France suffered more severe ___economic___________ problems than the __American________ colonist.
According to Thomas Hobbes, the social contract involved an exchange of rights for his idea of having a the stability of a ___ ___ government.
strong_______ ____central_______
The Enlightenment philosophers inspired later political revolutions because of their support for _
_NATURAL__ rights
A major contributing factor to the start of an independence movement in the American colonies was
the __lack_______ of representation of the __colonist_________ in the British ___parliament______
The European response to the rise and fall of Napoleon’s empire helped to spread the idea of ?
Nationalism
One similar result of the American and French Revolutions was that in both countries the
___citizens________ gained more ____political_________ rights.
Which philosopher would most likely promote the ideas in the excerpt?
John Locke
The Enlightenment philosophes, such as the separation of powers, influence the political revolutions of the eighteenth century by incorporating ideas into __________ documents produced during the ___________
______constitutional_ Enlightenment___
What impact does the Bill of Rights have on society in the United States?
US citizens are guaranteed specific legal protections
Following the defeat of Napoleon, European powers came together at the Congress of Vienna in order to restore a __
_balance____________ of __power__________ in ___Europe__________
Both the American and French revolutionaries issued documents declaring independence. What major idea contained in these documents was used as a justification for revolution?
Governments are established to protect ____citizens________ rights
In 1215 King John of England signed the Magna Carta, which outline the idea that _
____a rulers subjects have rights_______
An absolute monarchy can be defined as
centralized _____Control_______ of all __Political___________ process by the _____ruler_____________
The Enlightenment furthered the development of democratic-republican governments by incorporating
new ideas about ___individual_______________ rights introduced during the enlightenment.
What was the purpose of the boundaries established by the Congress of Vienna and how did it affect European history? T
he boundaries were a step towards the creation of a ____Unified___________ ____German________________ territory.
Simón Bolívar was influenced by the American and French Revolutions by adopting _
_enlightenment_________ ideals and began ___revolutions_________ against __Spanish___________ authority.