WC Chapter 8 Practice Question Guide With Complete Answers.
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Philosophies believe the natural rights for all people which included - correct answer Equality before the law, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom a religious worship and rights to assemble, whole property, and pursue happiness
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WC Chapter 8
Philosophies believe the natural rights for all people which included - correct answer Equality before the law, freedom of the press, freedom of speech, freedom a religious worship and rights to assemble, whole property, and pursue happiness
Enlightened rulers - correct answer Rulers who must allow natural rights and nurture the arts, sciences, and education, also must obey in enforce the laws fairly for all subjects
Enlightened absolutism - correct answer System where rulers tried to govern by enlightenment principles while maintaining the royal powers
Frederick William I - correct answer maintained a highly efficient bureaucracy of civil service workers, other major concern was the army, by the end of his reign in 1740 he doubled the army size
members of nobility - correct answer owned large land of the states with many serves, we're officers in the Prussian army
Officers in the Prussian army - correct answer How do you strong sense of service to the king or state, believed in duty, obedience, and sacrifice
Frederick II (Frederick the Great) - correct answer well-versed in enlightenment ideas and was also a dedicated ruler, enlarged Prussian army by actively recruiting the nobility into civil service, kept strict watch over the bureaucracy
Frederick II made enlightened reforms- - correct answer Abolished use of murder except in treason and murder cases, granted limited freedom of speech and press as well as greater religious toleration, however Frederick kept precious serfdom and rigid social structure intact and avoided many additional reforms Why was the Austrian empire hard to rule - correct answer It was made up of many nationalities languages religions and cultures
Maria Theresa - correct answer inherited the Austrian throne in 1740, Worked
to centralized in strength in the state, wasn't open to the philosophies calls for reform but she did work to improve the condition of serves
Maria Theresa's son, Joseph II - correct answer Believed in the need to sweep away anything standing in the path of reason, abolished serfdom and eliminated the death penalty, established the principle of equality of all before the law and enacted religious reforms including religious toleration
Joseph's reform program - correct answer Largely failed, alienated the nobles by freeing the serfs, alienated the Catholic Church with his religious reforms, even serfs were unhappy because they could not understand the drastic changes, his successors ended almost all of his reforms
Catherine II (Catherine the Great) - correct answer ruled Russia from 1767 to 1796, intelligent woman who was familiar with the works of philosophes and seemed to favor enlightened reforms, Considered the idea of a new law code that would recognize the principle of equality of all people in the eyes of the law
why did Catherine not Carry out the idea of the new law code - correct answer She knew that her success depended on the support of the Russian nobility
What did Catherine's policy of favoring the land of nobility lead to - correct answer worst conditions for the Russian peasants and eventually to rebellion
Yemelyan Pugchao - correct answer And a literate Kossack who led the rebellion and spread it across southern Russia but it soon collapsed
What happened after the rebellion in Russia - correct answer Catherine took stronger measures against the peasants, rural reform Was halted, and serfdom was expanded into the newer parts of the empire
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