MWH Quarterly Exam

How did scientists begin challenging authority during the Scientific Revolution?

• competition for political influence over other countries

• they supported movements for social change, political change, and ultimately revolution

• overthrow the Russian government

• By testing old beliefs using logic, math, and observations

Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke and Jean-Jacques Rousseau challenged the idea of the divine right of kings. They wrote about a government's obligations to uphold people's rights and how the government should be based on the consent of the governed. These new ideas encouraged people to:

• engage in revolutions to establish democratic governments

• increased food supplies, population increase, and migration of farmers to cities

• overthrow the Russian government

• those who supported a democratic society and those who supported communism

What was one idea that the leaders of the American Revolution shared with Enlightenment thinkers?

• Fascist / military dictatorship

• emergence of the middle class and working class

• loss of political independence.

• The people have the right to overthrow their government if it abuses its powers

Thomas Jefferson said, "When the government fears the people, there is liberty; when the people fear the government, there is tyranny." The author of this statement likely supports:

• The Industrial Revolution encouraged people to pursue jobs in cities.

• The right of people to Revolution when governments fail to serve the people

• The League of Nations

• competition for political influence over other countries

One of the direct results of the American Revolution was

• A complete change.

• Prevent international tensions from leading to war

• creation of a Constitution that discussed ideas of government never before experienced in the history of mankind

• United States / Soviet Union

The American Revolution was a significant event in history for which following reason?

• Powerful foreign nations such as Spain and France recognized the United States’ sovereign status, The United States formally became an independent nation, For the first time in history, a people broke away from a monarchy to develop a democratic form of government

• U.S. imperialism was wrong.

• the genocide was planned in great detail and required the cooperation of many people

• a policy of containing the spread of communism (Domino Theory)

Enlightenment philosophers such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau wrote that the relationship between citizens and their government was a social contract. Which statement describes the impact of the idea of government as a social contract on the French Revolution in 1789?

• A complete change.

• Industrial Revolution

• French citizens claimed their natural rights.

• political instability in parts of the world the Soviets once controlled

In 1789, the French National Assembly issued the Declaration of the Rights of Man, based in part on the concepts expressed in the U.S. Declaration of Independence in 1776. Both of the "Declarations" reflected the Enlightenment belief that governments exist to protect the natural rights of citizens. What developments in France and the United States attempted to assure the implementation of this concept of government?

• It imposed harsh reparations payments on Germany, which led to economic and political instability and set the stage for the rise of the Nazi party.

• drafting constitutional protections

• The increased flow of trade, people, technology, and culture among countries

• By testing old beliefs using logic, math, and observations

What action by the leaders of the French Revolution demonstrates that they were influenced by Enlightenment ideas? 

• The League of Nations

• American military and financial intervention in the war

• the genocide was planned in great detail and required the cooperation of many people

• They called for the fall of the absolute monarchy.

During the Enlightenment, a number of writers explored the relationship between governments and the people they governed. For example, Rousseau wrote The Social Contract in which he examined ideas about majority will and the common good. How did these ideas influence the American and French Revolutions?

• raw materials, the desire for new markets, and strategic advantage

• nationalism

• they supported movements for social change, political change, and ultimately revolution

• competition for political influence over other countries