Enlightenment and Absolutism Review

Which best explains the main idea of the Enlightenment?

• The Catholic Church should stay in power

• Art should be emotional

• Using logic to solve human problems

• The universe is Heliocentric

What French colony experienced a slave revolt?

• Louisiana

• Haiti

• Cuba

• Jamacia

What seventeenth century movement inspired the French Revolution?

• The Enlightenment

• Aboslutism

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Renaissance

What historical period is associated with Storming the Bastille, The Declaration of the Rights of Man, and the Reign of Terror?

• The Rennisance

• Protestant Reformation

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

The political theory that people form governments for their mutual protection and that government rules only with the consent of those people is known as

• Monarchy-Citizen Friendship

• Divine Right

• Leviathan

• Social Contract Theory

Rousseau's ideas of "natural law" led to his publication of The Social Contract in 1762. His writings reflect Enlightenment ideals because he desired

• Civil rights for common people

• harmony between faith and reason.

• a return to the primacy of the Catholic Church.

• a rebirth of the classical ideals of Greece and Rome.

Peter the Great (Russia), Fredrick the Great (Prussia), and Louis XIV (France) were all considered to be

• feudal lords.

• absolute monarchs

• enlightened despots.

• constitutional monarchs.

Sir Isaac Newton revolutionized the way people understood the universe in the seventeenth century when he proved that

• Planets stay in orbit because of gravity

• The earth revolves around the sun

• Objects dropped from the same height fall at the same speed

• the sun revolves around the earth

Which person is CORRECTLY matched with his area of scientific accomplishment?

• Galileo: "Law of Gases"

• Copernicus: "First Law of Motion"

• Kepler: planetary orbits

• Newton: blood circulation

What event caused the signing of the English Bill of Rights?

• The Glorious Revolution

• Storming the Bastille

• The Boston Tea Party

• The English Civil War