World History Review (Sept)

Montesquieu is known for

• social contract

• separation of powers

• laissez faire

• philosophe

Rousseau's social contract guarantees doing what is best for the general will of society.

• true

• false

Laissez-faire is an economic doctrine that states that the government should control businesses (economy).

• true

• false

Thomas Hobbes believed that people were

• moral and upright

• fair and logical

• motivated by self-preservation

• wasteful and greedy

Hobbes name for the state , which he believed needed an absolute ruler with unlimited power was

• natural rights

• Roundheads

• Puritans

• Leviathan

Specific Rights that can not be taken away are called

• Leviathan

• natural rights

• Roundheads

• Puritans

John Locke's ideas influenced the Constitution of which country?

• France

• England

• The United States

• Greenland

How did the Enlightenment thinkers try to change the world ?

• with rational criticism

• giving people what they want

• forcing people to accept their ideas

• including church ideas with their ideas

The goal of the Enlightenment thinkers was to use the scientific method to keep society the same.

• true

• false

The attitude of male intellectuals was a major obstacle to

• peasants from becoming nobles

• nobles improving their living conditions

• women improving their lives and conditions.

• the King from joining the Enlightenment movement