The Enlightenment and the American Revolution

One scientific advancement of the 18th century included Edward Jenner's vaccine against...

• Polio

• Smallpox

• Bubonic Plague

• Influenza

During the Enlightenment, rules discoverable by reason were known as____.

• Natural law

• The Scientific Revolution

• separation of powers

• absolute monarchy

An agreement by which citizens give up some of their freedom for an organized society and in turn the rulers agree to protect the people is called....

• Despotism

• Absolute Monarchy

• Social Contract

• Natural Laws

What did Locke believe about government?

• Locke believed that the best government should have limited power and be accepted by all the people governed.

• Locked believed that a government should be run by an absolute monarch.

• Locke believed that government should be a theocracy.

• Locke believed that people were evil and could not govern themselves.

The "philosophes" believed that____.

• Truth is found in the Bible and in Catholic tradition

• Human reason can be used to reform government.

• The laws of the universe can be discovered through experimentation and observation.

• All citizens should be given the right to vote.

Montesquieu felt that the best way to protect liberty was____.

• to have a strong monarch in power

• to separate power between three branches

• to allow women to have an equal chance at an education

• to enforce a universal religion

Which of the following was NOT a belief of that Voltaire expressed?

• The slave trade should be abolished

• People should be able to choose the religion that they practice

• People should be able to express themselves in writing and speech

• Women should be able to run for public office

In her Vindication of the Rights of Women, Mary Wollenstonecraft advocated for....

• equal education for boys and girls

• equal voting rights for all people

• women not being wives and mothers

• an end to the slave trade

The physiocrats focused on ____

• government

• economics

• religion

• philosophy

The economic system of Mercantilism stresses....

• free market and trade

• laissez faire

• strict government regulation of trade and the economy

• religious controlled government