Ch.1 Test: Changing Ideas and a Changing World

An orderly way of collecting and analyzing evidence.

• English Bill of Rights

• Ancient Greeks

• The Magna Carta of 1215

• Scientific Method

Limited royal power and protected nobles from unlawful loss of life, liberty, and property.

• "Rule of Law"

• Ancient Greeks

• The Magna Carta of 1215

• Scientific Method

Guarantees certain rights to all citizens.

• "Rule of Law"

• Ancient Greeks

• The English Bill of Rights

• Scientific Method

Developed philosophy.

• "Rule of Law"

• Ancient Greeks

• The English Bill of Rights

• Scientific Method

Gift of ancient Rome and the basis of the American legal system.

• "Rule of Law"

• Ancient Greeks

• The English Bill of Rights

• Scientific Method

What impact did Parliament’s representative assembly have on American colonists?

• They decided to create a parliamentary system in North America.

• They created a court system in which cases are decided by juries.

• They established representative legislatures in the colonies.

• They created a system of checks and balances.

The equal division of power among the branches of government is called

• the Enlightenment

• civic participation

• legislation

• the separation of powers

What did the English Bill of Rights eventually inspire?

• the Magna Carta

• the scientific method

• Leviathan by Thomas Hobbes

• American Bill of Rights

_____ believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• Isaac Newton

• John Calvin

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

Which Catholic priest in the 1200's was a champion of scholasticism?

• Thomas Aquinas

• Thomas Hobbes

• Galileo Galilei

• Francis Bacon