American History I - Unit 1 Review

Which of the following best explains the effect of the Scientific Revolution on traditional religious beliefs?

• People now looked to religion to explain the world around them.
• People now looked to their kings to explain the world around them.
• People used reason and logic to explain the world
• Momney makes the world go round

How did the Great Awakening change America?

• It brought people from all over the colonies together for the first time

• It led to people denying God and leading secular lives

• It spread abolitionism throughout the land and led to the end of slavery

• It brought French rule to America

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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The Great Awakening was a __________ movement.

• political

• scientific

• religious

• artistic

Which concept from the European Enlightenment was included in the United States Constitution.

• consent of the governed
• despotism
• absolutism
• limited monarchy

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence? 

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke 
• Adam Smith

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

What group of people had a voice in government in colonial America.

• women
• men 
• white men who owned property
• women who owned property

This was the first legislature in English North America.

• General Court
• General Assembly
• Parliament
• House of Burgesses

What is the significance of the Fundamental Orders of Connecticut?  Hint: It was authored by Thomas Hooker. 

• First form of organized government in the colonies. 
• It was the first written constitution in the colonies. 
• It was the first bill of rights seen in the colonies. 
• It was a government document guaranteeing the rights of minorities.