• Seton Hall University

• HISTORY 101

1. Define liberalism, as that term was meant in the 18th century.

= Liberalism is a philosophy that rejects moral absolutes, authority and religious authority. This

philosophy stresses that men should be free from any authority and be free to do what they wanted to do.

This belief agrees to eliminate oppositions and permits violence in doing so.

2. Why did the War of the Spanish Succession start? What did France guarantee at the end of the war?

Give one result for Spain.

= It started because most of Europe did not want to see France and Spain in the hands of one ruler. The

French guaranteed at the end of the war that the two nations will never be united and the result in Spain

was it was still under the absolutist rule.

3. Which king ordered the Jesuit Suppression, and why? Which pope agreed to this, and why? What was

the result?

= The king that ordered the Jesuit Suppression is Charles III because Jesuits represented an independent

and spiritually powerful force and it is a threat to their power and their lavish lifestyles. The Pope who

agreed to suppress the Jesuit is Pope Clement XIV because he was threatened by Charles III that Spain

would fall into schism and he was too weak to resist it and in result of the disbandment of the Jesuits from

earth until it was found again in 1814.