Revolutions Review

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 

• Catholic Church
• Roman Gods
• Baptist ministers
• The Queen of Spain

Which of the following is an example of an “unlimited government?”

• Democracy
• Republic
• Absolute Monarch
• Constitutional Monarchy

The US has a written constitution, this characteristic is one of a:

• Limited Government
• Unlimited Government

Which of the following made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation?

• Greek Philosophers

• microscope and telescope

• the printing press

Education spread widely during the enlightenment because

• books were written by the elite

• the church promoted reading

• reading material was aimed at the masses

Why did many European intellectuals admire the U.S. Revolution and its Constitution and Bill of Rights?

• the colonies' ideas came from the ideals in the enlightenment based on natural rights

• the constitution came from European constitutions

• the colonists won their revolution

Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas about the rights of women were based on

• the idea that women have reason, just like men

• the unfairness of women not having the same rights as men

• the governments not having the same rights for women as men

the idea that the state should not interfere with the economy

• bill of rights

• laissez-faire

• law of gravity

Explains why planetary bodies stay in orbit around the sun.

• law of gravity

• law of motion

• enlightenment