Unit 7: Test Review Enlightenment and Revolutions

The right to life, liberty, and property

• natural rights

• social contract

• natural beauty

• popular sovereignty

An agreement between free individuals and government

• natural rights

• social contract

• popular sovereignty

• separation of powers

The idea that government power comes from the people.

• natural rights

• social contract

• consent of the governed

• salons

This philosopher believed that government power should be divided into three branches.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Beccaria

Enlightenment ideas influenced American colonists to challenge British authority.

• True

• False

An intellectual movement focused on improving government and society using reason and thought.

• natural rights

• Scientific Revolution

• Enlightenment

• 10 Commandments

Which is NOT true about the legacy of the Enlightenment?

• destroyed freedom

• inspired the American Revolution

• questioned the church

• focused on individual rights

In the American Government, each branch has the power to prevent the other branches from abusing power.

• separation of power

• Declaration of Independence

• checks and balances

• popular sovereignty

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