Chapter 2 Review

CHAPTER 2 REVIEW

English Civil War

• Divine Rights of Kings

• Charles I: what happened to him?

• Cavaliers vs. Roundheads: who were they?

• Cromwell: what kind of leader was he – how did he take over England?

• Rump Parliament: what was it?

• Military dictatorship

Glorious Revolution

• Charles II

• James II

• William and Mary – why did they take power?

• Bill of Rights what was it?

• Constitutional monarchy – what document created one?

The Enlightenment

• Beccaria and his thoughts on crime and punishment

• Rousseau and the social contract

• Montesquieu and the separation of powers – how his work influenced later governments

• Locke and the idea of natural rights

– His blank mind theory

• Where did the Enlightenment start?

• Wollstonecraft –what did she do?

• Laissez-faire

• absolutism

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris –what did the new Americans get?

Essay Questions:
1. Describe the major ideas of the Enlightenment in detail
2. Describe John Locke's theories on knowledge
3. How did the Enlightenment ideas influence the colonists and contribute to both the American Revolution and the creation of the new government?