(Midterm Review) Unit 2 - Enlightenment and American Revolution

During the Enlightenment, people came to believe that __ was necessary for society to improve.

• Tyrants

• Prejudice

• Reason

• return to religion

All of the following are Enlightenment ideas EXCEPT:

• Natural Rights

• Consent of the people

• Reason and Logic are keys to progress

• Accepting life as-is makes humans happy

The basic idea expressed by Thomas Hobbes was that people:

• should accept the Stuart family is their rulers

• should support an government headed by a monarch

• give up individual liberty for social order and safety

• support the passing of royal privileges from father to son.

John Locke argued that life, liberty, and property are:

• economic rights provided by capitalism

• natural rights the government should protect

• political rights granted by the law

• social rights granted by the aristocracy

The Enlightenment philosophers based thier ideas about government on:

• Classical Greece and Rome

• The British Commonwealth under Oliver Cromwell

• The ideals of the American Revolution

• Thomas Moore's idea of Utopia

The Baron de Montesquieu believed that best way to protect people's liberties was:

• Allow people to choose their leaders

• Give all the power to one leader

• Put most of the power in the executive brach

• Separate the powers of government among three branches

In The Social Contract, Rousseau argued that:

• Governments are controlled by the strong

• Governments rule by consent of the people

• People are required to support their leaders

• People should be free

Which Enlightenment idea influenced democratic revolutions all over the world?

• Nations need constitutions

• People of natural rights that governments cannot deny

• Rights come from religious belief

• Courts have the final say in all matters

American colonists mainly opposed British taxes because:

• It funded the British military

• Colonists did not benefit from the 7 Years War

• They thought George III was annoying

• They had no representation in Parliament

Thomas Jefferson based the Declaration of Independence based on the ideas of:

• Montesquieu

• Washington

• John Locke

• Voltaire