Chapter 1
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14 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 absolute monarchy | Unrestrained power. Europe in the 18th and 19th centuries |
| old regime/ancien regime | The Political and Social system that existed in France before the French Revolution |
| monarchy | state ruled over by a single person, as a king or queen |
| divine right | belief that a rulers authority comes directly from god. |
| constitutional monarchy | A King or Queen is the official head of state but power is limited by a constitution. |
| mercantilism | increase their wealth and power by obtaining large amounts of gold and silver and by selling more goods than they bought |
| enlightenment | a movement in the 18th century that advocated the use of reason in the reappraisal of accepted ideas and social institution |
| social contract | the idea that an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will |
| The Wealth of the Nations | written by Adam Smith, promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics |
| laissez faire | the doctrine that government should not interfere in commercial affairs |
| philosphes | thinkers of the Enlightenment |
| liberalism | A political ideology that emphasizes the civil rights of citizens, representative government, and the protection of private property. |
| socialism | a theory or system of social organization that advocates the vesting of the ownership and control of the means of production and distribution, of capital, land, etc., in the community as a whole. |
| communism | an economic system in which the central government directs all major economic decisions |
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