Enlightenment & Revolutions

What rules, discoverable by reason, did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

• natural right

• natural law

• social contract

• divine right

Because the American colonies were home to diverse religious and ethnic groups

• the colonists tended to support British taxes

• the colonists tended to support British royalty

• social distinctions were more blurred than in Europe

• the colonists did not feel entitled to the rights of English citizens

Which founding American document was revised in 1787 and ratified in 1789?

• The US Constitution

• The Articles of Confederation

• The Bill of Rights

• The Declaration of Independence

Thomas Hobbes wanted

• monarchy

• democracy

• anarchy

• theocracy

Montesquieu is credited with the idea of

• enlightened despotism

• absolute monarchy

• federalism

• checks and balances

Maximilian Robespierre, a member of the Jacobin family, led a period in France known as

• the Reign of Terror

• the Directory Phase

• the Death by Guillotine Age

• the National Assembly

The Congress of Vienna

• restores Napoleon to the throne

• restores hereditary monarchs

• establishes a republic in France

• combines France and Belgium

A major goal of the decision makers at the Congress of Vienna was to

• restore the sans-culottes to power in France

• divide France among the victors

• suppress revolutionary uprisings throughout Europe

• destroy Napoleon's forces at Waterloo

Ruler who tried to apply Enlightened ideas to their ruler

• Enlightened Absolutism
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Democracy
• Enlightened Monarchy

Policies of the Committee of Public Safety to defend France from domestic threats was called the 

• Reign of Terror
• Coup d'etat
• Consequence of Liberty
• Rights of the Citizen