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18. The Eighteenth Century Beth Celona

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18th Century

Vocab1 Monarchs War Enlightenment Average Life

100Q. What are Natural Rights?

A: Inalterable priveledges that ought not to be witheld from any person

200Q. What is enlightened absolutism

A. When a ruler follows the advice of philosophes and rules by using enlightened

principles

300Q. What is the word for Prussian nobility

A. Junkers

400Q. What is reason of state?

A. The basis that a ruler takes interest in the long term future of their state

500Q. What is the cottage system?

A. A system where entrepreneurs sold wool and flax to rural workers to spin into clothes and

yarn.

100Q. What characterized the 18th century British

political system?

A. A balance of power between the king and parliament with parliament having the upper

hand

200Q. Which king lost the American colonies?

A. King George III

300Q. Frederick the Great of Prussia took a great

interest in what?

A. Military Affairs

400Q. Pugachev’s failed rebellion led Catherine the

Great to do what?

A. Repress the peasants even more

500Q. What is the Pragmatic Sanction and was it

successful?

A. Charles VI made European powers promise to recognize his daughter Maria Theresa as his

successor. However, once he died they ignored it.

100Q. The destruction of Poland came from which

3 countries?

A. Austria, Russia, and Prussia

200After the Treaty of Utrecht, who replaced Spain

as the dominant force in Italy?

A. Austria

300What is the greatest conflict in the Seven Years

War known as?

A. The French and Indian War

400Q. What did the composition of armies reflect?

A. The hierarchical structure of European society

500Q. Though there was an increase in armies,

there was not an increase in ____

A. Destruction of warfare

100Q. What three monarchs were known for

enlightened absolutism?

A. Frederick II of Prussia, Catherine the Great of Russia, and Joseph II of Austria

200Q. Catherine the Great’s Charter of Nobility

formalized what rights?

A. Right to trial by peers and exemption from personal taxation and corporal punishment

300Q. What is primogeniture and how did the

enlightenment affect it?

A. The practice of treating the firstborn son as the favorite. After the enlightenment, it

started to become less practiced.

400Q. Philosophes regarded war as what?

A. A foolish waste of life and resources

500Q. Who said, “I have made philosophy the

lawmaker of my empire?”

A. Joseph II

100Q. After 1750, illegitimate birth rates did what?

A. Increased

200Q. 18th century agriculture is characterized by

what?

A. and increase in food production

300Q. A decrease in supplies to take care of

children led to high rates of what?

A. Infanticide

400Q. Among working class families the

contribution of women and children were what?

A. Crucial to family economy

500Q. Marriage was based mostly around what?

A. Interests and what is best for the family