Fall Final World History

According to laissez-faire economist Adam Smith, a government should...

• acquire gold and silver wealth through trade

• let free market forces drive the economy

• impose tariffs to protect local manufacturing

• regulate the wages, hours, and working conditions of workers

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation.

• Glorious Revolution.

• Scientific Revolution.

• Renaissance.

According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is

• a federal republic

• theocracy

• a democracy.

• an absolute monarchy.

Checks and balances in the US Constitution was influenced by which Enlightenment thinker?

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Diderot

Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, business activity would be regulated by the forces of

• wages and prices.

• supply and demand.

• saving and investment.

• manufacturing and trade.

What Enlight. thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural right

• Thomas Hobbes

• René Descartes

• Voltaire

• John Locke

The Constitution created a federal republic, which divided power between

• branches of the state government.

• two houses of parliament.

• national and state governments.

• the government and the people.

The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker

• Voltaire.

• Rouseau.

• Locke.

• Montesquieu.

In France’s old order, the clergy belonged to the

• First Estate

• Third Estate

• Second Estate

• Fourth Estate

The Reign of Terror gave way to Directory phase of revolution in which political force was the

• Jacobins.

• bourgeoisie.

• Girondins.

• Council of Virtue.