Benchmark Review

The idea that reason should guide society rather than tradition helped cause the revolution and came from

• the Declaration of Independence
• the Scientific Revolution
• the Enlightenment
• all of the above

When the other estates refused to change voting rules the 3rd Estate 

• met separately
• Created the National Assembly
• took the Tennis Court Oath
• all of the above

This was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals, aiming to apply reason to all endeavors.

• Reformation
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment

Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights (Life, liberty, property):

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

Rousseau, Montesquieu, and Locke would all support:

• A dictatorship
• A democracy
• An absolute monarchy
• All of these

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence? 

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke 
• Adam Smith

A government leader who has all the power

• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Absolute Monarchy
• Separation of Powers

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Divine Right of Kings