The Enlightenment

The foundation of Thomas Hobbes’s social contract was?

• Only a government that protected natural rights could produce an orderly society.

• Only a laissez-faire government could produce an orderly society.

• Only a weak government, such as one headed by an enlightened despot, could produce an

  orderly society.

• Only a powerful government, such as an absolute monarchy, could produce an orderly

  society.

How are the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment similar?

• They strengthened the institution of the Church.

• They led to the Protestant Reformation.

• They encouraged the spread of new ideas.

• They rejected Renaissance secularism.

What was a result of the Latin American revolution that reflected Enlightenment ideals?

• Creoles who had supported independence made up a powerful upper class.

• The new governments were often conservative and were led by wealthy Creoles.

• New constitutions ended many social distinctions and abolished slavery.

• Peru's first constitution gave the vote to citizens who could read and write in Spanish.

Which concept influenced the Enlightenment?

• enlightened despots

• the Scientific Revolution

• constitutional government

• the writing of the Declaration of Independence

One Enlightenment philosophy contributed to the French Revolution.

• anarch rights

• social contract

• rococo art

• laissez faire

Equal education for girls and boys was this Enlightenment thinkers goal?

• Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

The Enlightenment ideas that found more support during the French Revolution than

the American Revolution?

• The financial privileges of the wealthy should be redistributed among other members of

  society.

• A monarchy based on enlightened absolutism was the most sound basis for a government.

• Equal rights for all meant equal rights for men and women according to natural law.

• Public office should be held by those with talent and not by those with money.

How does the political philosophy of John Locke support the idea of both the English Bill of Rights and the Enlightenment?

• communist bureaucracy

• aristocratic anarchy

• limited government

• absolute power

Following the French Revolution what helped Napoleon Bonaparte consolidate power?

• the establishment of the French Parliament

• the creation of the predecessor to the European Union

• the lower classes gaining more political control

• the Catholic Church emerging as a powerful force

What political philosophy was the Enlightenment a reaction to?

• absolutism

• democracy

• communism

• anarchy