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EDMENTUM END OF SEMESTER TEST - WORLD HISTORY SEMESTER A WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERS
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EDMENTUM END OF SEMESTER TEST - WORLD HISTORY SEMESTER A WITH 100% CORRECT ANSWERSEnglish Bill of Rights - answer Document that supported a limited monarchy, a system in which they shared their power with Parliament and the people.
Commonwealth - answer Replaced the monarchy by placing power in parliament and the people of Britain.
Constitutional Monarchy - answer A system of governing in which the ruler's power is limited by law.
Bill of Rights (1689) - answer A bill passed by Parliament and accepted by William and Mary that limited the powers of British monarchs and affirmed those of Parliament.
rational thinking - answer thinking that relies on careful reasoning and objective analysis
Age of Enlightenment/Age of Reason - answer This was a time period of new ideas, theories, philosophies and discoveries in politics, art, music, math, science, exploration, literature, etc.
Reason and logic became the center of understanding, rather than the church and religion
Inspired people to think for themselves and deny authority
Voltaire - answer French philosopher and author; he was a supporter of Deism, the idea that God was no
longer involved with the universe after creating it. He also advocated a tolerant approach to religion.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau - answer A French man who believed that Human beings are naturally good & free & can rely on their instincts. Government should exist to protect common good, and be a democracy
Thomas Hobbes - answer English materialist and political philosopher who believed in the Monarchy as the only kind of government that could resolve problems caused by the selfishness of human beings William Blackstone - answer Defined God given rights and laws of the world versus those established by the government.
Enlightenment ideas - answer All human beings are born free and equal with a right to life liberty and property. It is the duty of the government to protect the natural rights of its citizens. Enlightenment thinkers were primarily interested in changing the relationship between the people and their government. Government's decisions should be based on laws of nature and reason
Stamp Act - answer an act passed by the British parliament in 1756 that raised revenue from the American colonies by a duty in the form of a stamp required on all newspapers and legal or commercial documents
Intolerable Acts - answer series of laws passed in 1774 to punish Boston for the Tea Party
French Revolution - answer a rebellion of French people against their king in 1789
Urbanization and Industrialization - answer Growth in population living in cities. Most urban centers in Europe at least doubled in size, many even quadrupled.
crop rotation - answer The practice of rotating use of different fields from crop to crop each year, to avoid exhausting the soil.
Communist Society - answer a society in which all property is publicly owned and each person works and
is paid according to their abilities and needs.
Poor Laws - answer English statutes that allowed the courts to appoint overseers over destitute and neglected children, allowing placement of these children as servants in the homes of the wealthy
Nationalists - answer believe in uniting people who share a common history and culture
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