Enlightenment and Revolution Review

What was John Locke's "Big Idea" from the Enlightenment?

• Natural Rights
• Separation of Powers
• Religious Tolerance
• Social Contract

According to John Locke, what should the people do if the government does not protect their natural rights?

• Refuse to pay taxes
• Learn to live with it
• Move to another country
• Overthrow the government

What was Voltaire's "Big Idea" of the Enlightenment?

• Religious Freedom
• Political Freedom
• Economic Freedom
• Social Freedom

What was the "Main Idea" of the Enlightenment philosophers?

• Democracy is the only form of govt
• Individual rights in all areas of life
• Slavery should be abolished 
• Women should have equal rights

Rousseau favors what kind of government

• Absolute Monarchy

• Enlightened Monarchy

• Oligarchy

• Popularly Elected Government

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted [organized] among Men, deriving [getting] their just powers from the consent of the governed, That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends it is the Right of the People to alter or abolish, and to institute new Government…

From The Declaration of Independence

This passage is based mainly on the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

Which of the following are John Locke’s natural rights?

• Life, liberty, and property

• The right to create and change laws

• Separation of powers

The U.S. Constitution divides power among 3 branches of government, the president, the Congress, and the courts. This idea of government is based on the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

• John Locke

• Denis Diderot

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

Which of the following best summarizes Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s idea of popular sovereignty?

• Individual rights should never be denied.

• People should submit to the divine monarchs.

• The majority rules.

• Government should express the will of the people.

During the Scientific Revolution the heliocentric view of the universe was first proposed by __.

• Ptolemy
• Francis Bacon
• Isaac Newton
• Nicolaus Copernicus