Enlightenment and Revolution Vocab Review

1. Enlightenment and Revolution Vocab Review

2. American colonists had many problems with George III. They wanted the right to vote and didn’t believe they should be taxed if they weren’t represented in Parliament. They felt they should have the freedom of speech even if it criticized the king. The subjects of the British colonies believed they had rights that couldn’t be taken away. The subjects wanted to remain British subjects but believed King George III should rule using Enlightenment principles. • 1. What term describes the right to vote? • 2. What term best describes the type of king that the colonists wanted? • 3. What term best describes what King George III did to speech he did not like? • 4. What term best describes the type of rights that colonists believed they had?

3. 5. Which term best describes the action in this paragraph? • The crisis facing the king came to a head in 1688, with the birth of the King James II’s son. This changed the existing line of succession by displacing his daughter Mary, a Protestant and the wife of William of Orange, with young James as heir. The establishment of a Roman Catholic dynasty in the kingdom now seemed likely. Some of the most influential leaders of the Tories united with members of the opposition Whigs and set out to resolve the crisis by inviting William of Orange and his wife Mary to England to rule.

4. 6. What term best describes the income of King George III? • 7. What is another term for a law? • 8. What term best describes the overthrow of a government? • 9. What is another term for ‘stop this practice’? • 10. Which term is described by the King’s actions of ignoring the colonial governments? • Prime Minister Robert Walpole stated that “if no restrictions were placed on the colonies, they would flourish.” King George III ignored the colonial governments as long as they increased his income. He would pass laws to increase his income when needed. In an effort to stop this practice, the American colonists overthrew the British government.

5. 11. The below picture represents Democrats and Republicans in the United States. What term are these two parties an example of?

6. 12. What term best describes the terrorist government led by Robespierre? • For the first time in history terror  became an official government policy, with the stated aim to use violence in order to achieve a higher political goal. Unlike the later meaning of ‘terrorists’ as people who use violence against a government, the terrorists of the French Revolution were the government. The Terror was legal, having been voted for by the Convention and led by Maximilian Robespierre. 

7. 13. Most of North Carolina was Anti-Federalist, meaning they did not want to approve the US Constitution. Which term best describes ‘approve’?

8. 14. What term is best represented by this picture?

9. 15. Which term could be applied to a limited learners permit? • Before you get your full drivers license, you must spend time driving under a limited learner’s permit.

10. 16. Which term is described by this picture?

11. 17. Which term can be described by the addition of territory in the US as seen in this map?

12. 18. Which term is illustrated by this map of Africa?

13. 19. Which term describes the exchange of power in this quote? • “If a ruler seeks absolute power, if he acts both as judge and participant in disputes, he puts himself in a state of war with his subjects and we have the right and the duty to kill such rulers and their servants.” • John Locke

14. 20. What term describes this picture?