Unit 6 Enlightenment & Revolutions

What was the Enlightenment built on?

• The Age of Revolutions

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Protestant Reformation

• The Agricultural Revolution

Who believed that the collective good should be valued over the individual?

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Who believed in natural individual rights that should be protected by the government above all else?

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Who used wit and satire to criticize the monarchy, catholic church, and nobility?

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

The ideas of Enlightenment thinkers can be directly linked to the development of

• the Scientific Revolution.

• revolutions across the world.

• the Protestant Reformation.

• absolutism.

Which of the following valued human reasoning?

• the Enlightenment

• absolutism

• the Scientific Revolution

• The Counter Reformation

Which of the following would be used by a monarch to justify their absolute power?

• enlightenment thinking

• Protestant reform

• divine right of kings

• Locke's social contract

What did Louis XIV and Czar Peter the Great do to protect their absolute power?

• encouraged the studies of enlightenment philosophers

• replaced nobility and government officials with controllable commoners

• redistributed the wealth to create equality and stability in their empires

• exiled all scientists to protect traditional values

The Glorious Revolution and the creation of the English Bill of Rights led Great Britain to develop what type of government?

• direct democracy

• constitutional monarchy

• democratic republic

• socialist republic

Which TWO estates made up only 3 percent of the population in France but held all the power prior to their revolution?

• First Estate

• Second Estate

• Third Estate