Review Enlightenment to Revolutions

What is the time period called when new ideas about government were created and spread?

• The Middle Ages

• The Enlightenment

• The Revolution

• The Age of Reason

Which is NOT one of the Philosophers that wrote about the government?

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Galileo

• Rousseau

According to the philosophers of the time, what should one of the main purposes of the government be?

• Make money

• create colonies

• protect the rights of the people

• force the people to do what the King says

Many of them wrote about Natural Rights. Which is NOT one of the Natural Rights they believed in?

• Life

• Love

• Property

• Liberty

The agreement between the government and the people was called a __________.

• Salary Agreement

• Social Contract

• Declaration of Independence

• Citizen handbook

John Locke wrote that if a government does not honor the agreement and protect the people's rights, the people have the right to _________.

• move to Canada

• overthrow (change) the government

• complain but they can't do anything really

• ask the church to fix the government

For centuries, nearly all countries around the world had been ruled by Kings. The Goldilocks conditions for a Revolution happened in a colony in the late 1700s. It was called the ___________.

• French Revolution

• American Revolution

• Haitian Revolution

• Mexican Revolution

The Constitution of the United States says that the power of the government comes from ____________.

• being born into the royal family

• God

• the people

• winning battles in the Colosseum