Religion
The religion that the majority of people in Europe were- before the Protestant Reformation.
What is Roman Catholic?
A political system where a single leader, usually a monarch, has complete and unrestrained power over a country.
What is absolutism?
Parliament Wigs
What hid balding and were more sanitary than normal hair?
A document criticizing the Catholic Church's practices including propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences.
What are the 95 Theses?
Oliver Cromwell
Who led the New Model Army?
The name of the Religions that broke away from the Roman Catholic church.
What are Protestant Religions?
The way King Louis XIV distracted the wealthy aristocrats from the corruption and inequality in France.
What is building and entertaining aristocrats in the Palace of Versailles?
The building responsible for holding anyone who apposed the King's laws or ideals in France.
What is the Bastille prison?
The document promising the first self-governed decisions in the New England Colonies.
What is the Mayflower Compact?
The failed rebellion by poor individuals in the Roman Catholic Empire, who used a religious man's words as inspiration to fight for religious and civil freedoms of the lower classes.
The German Peasant Revolt
This made people emotional, shocked, and brought people into the churches.
What is Baroque Art?
The reason King Henry VIII founded the church of England (The Anglican Church).
What was the way to get a divorce?
A land grant program in Colonial America that allowed wealthy colonists to acquire 50 acres of land by paying for people to immigrate to the colonies as indentured servants.
What is the Headright System?
The document forbidding King Charles I of England from raising taxes or starting wars without Parliament's approval?
What was the Petition of Right?
The time when the Revolutionary government in France ordered the arrest and execution of thousands of people.
What is the Reign of Terror?
The belief that God has already decides who goes to heaven or to purgatory, a belief practiced by the Calvinists.
What is Predetermination?
The first Monarch to try and unite England, Wales, Scotland, and Ireland under one crown and religion and call it "Great Britain."
Who was King James VI (or King James I!)
The act by the English Parliament of removing James II from power and replacing him with Mary and William of Orange, securing England as a constitutional monarchy.
What was the Glorious Revolution?
Articles passed by the French National Assembly in 1789 that declared “men are born and remain free and equal in rights,” which were specified as the rights of liberty, private property, the right to a trial, and resistance to oppression.
What was the "Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen"
The extremely violent war between the English colonists, and several Native American tribes in response to hunting/farms taking up more land.
What was King Philip's (or Metacom's) War?
The 4 things that resulted from the Protestant Reformation.
What is higher literacy?
What is more religious tolerance?
What is new christian denominations?
What are conversations around freedom and equality?
The King and Queen of France during the French Revolution and their qualities.
Who were King Louis XVI and Mary Antionette, two highly self-absorbed and clueless monarchs that had no interest in the plight of the common folk.
What is the Black Legend?
Laws in France that recognized civil liberty, equality before the law, and granted equal rights under the law to all male citizens, including the right to religious dissent. However, women were deprived of any individual rights.
What was the Napoleonic Code?
The War fought across Europe in the 1600's during the Little Ice Age, between the Protestant and Catholic kingdoms.
What is the 30 Years War.