The Revolution

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

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

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

Which statement represents a key idea directly associated with John Locke's Two Treatises of Government?

• Freedom of speech should be denied.
• The king's power on Earth comes from God.
• All people are born with the right to life, liberty, and property.
• Individuals acting in their own self-interest will achieve economic success.

The ideas of Enlightenment philosophers were based on

• efforts to achieve salvation
• faith in human reason
• traditional practices
• the inevitability of poverty

The Enlightenment philosophers believed that the power of the government should be derived from….?

• The people
• The elite nobles
• small group of rulers
• kings and queens

Which best describes an important effect of the First Great Awakening?

• Followers put suspected witches on trial
• Puritans in England immigrated to settlements in the New World
• People became more emotionally engaged in religion

For both Hobbes and Locke, the social contract is an agreement between...

• plaintiff and defendant
• sovereign states
• companies and shareholders
• citizens and government

The French and Indian War happened AFTER the Stamp Act.

• True
• False

Who would NOT have taken part in the Sons of Liberty?

• King George
• journalists
• blacksmiths
• merchants