US Gov Unit 1 review

Who came up with idea of Natural Rights?

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• Voltaire

This act placed a tax on nearly all printed materials such as playing cards, newspapers, and certificates.

• Tea

• Stamp

• Declaratory

• Intolerable

This event was a reaction to the Tea Act which granted a monopoly to the British East Indies Tea Company

• Boston Tea Party

• Boston Massacre

• Boston Marathon

• Boston Red Sox

Rousseau believed that if a government attempted to take away the peoples' natural rights they were breaking this:

• legislature

• charter

• social contract

• promise

John Locke believed that all people were born with natural rights. It was a government's job to do what?

• Take them away

• Create new rights

• Protect them

• Interpret them

Which Enlightenment philosopher believed in basic freedoms, such as freedom of religion and believed in separation of Church and State.

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

According to John Locke, what must people do if their government stops working?

• Overthrow the government and live without a government
• Overthrow the government and create a new government
• Nothing. The people must follow their government-any government is better than nothing at all

According to the Social Contract theory ... 

• government emerged when all the people of an area were brought under the control of one person or group
• Government emerged from family
• People give up some of their natural rights in order to receive protection
• A person gains the authority to govern because a god or group of gods gave them that power

Which of the following philosophers believed in separation of powers?

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Voltaire

Which basic principle states that the government is very powerful but it cannot do all things?

• Limited Government
• Rule of Law
• Consent of the Governed
• Democracy