Unit 3 TEST

What is another name for the Enlightenment?

• The Age of Reason
• The Age of Great Philosophers
• The Age of Religion
• The Age of Revolution

Which Enlightenment thinker had the concept that all men have natural rights (life, liberty, property)? This thinker also inspired the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Charles Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What was the central theme that Enlightenment thinkers were writing about?

• Divine Right Theory

• Debating taxation

• Relationship between people and government

• Increasing the power of the Church

Of the following enlightenment thinkers, who developed the idea for the social contract?

• Charles Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

• John Locke

Life, liberty, and property are also known as?

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

What was the main reason the American colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?

• They wanted their own Monarch

• Taxation without representation

• They never wanted to be free from Great Britain, Great Britain wanted rid of the colonies

• Great Britain wanted to end slavery

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the French Revolution?

• bad leadership

• Reign of Terror

• Unequal representation

• Unfair taxation

What was the Reign of Terror

• The event that started the French Revolution

• The event that led to 17,000 French citizens to be killed by the Guillotine

• A mob that stormed the Bastille in Paris, France

• The event that started the American Revolution

What was the Guillotine?

• A device that made executions more difficult

• A new technology for the field of medicine

• A device that made executions quicker and easier

• A device used during the American Revolution