Revolutions

Government ruled by a king or queen

• democracy
• totalitarianism
• monarchy

Many people start a revolution because they want  to...

• elect their leaders democratically
• move to a new land

The American colonies declared their independence from 

• The Mother Country, England (aka Great Britain)
• The Spanish Empire

The French helped the Americans by sending

• food goods
• troops and money

Colonists protested the Stamp Act because they believed in what phrase?

• Live free or die
• All men are created equal
• Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness
• No taxation with representation

Life, Liberty and the pursuit of happiness were...

• Unalienable rights
• Bill of Rights
• Freedom to live
• Will Smith movie

The idea that reason should guide society rather than tradition helped cause the revolution and came from

• the Declaration of Independence
• the Scientific Revolution
• the Enlightenment
• all of the above

Enlightenment thinkers heavily criticized __________.

• democracy
• equality
• voting
• absolute monarchy

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