The "BIG WHY" Question: "Why do we need to study the Enlightenment and how does it affect my life today?!

ANSWER: Because the ideas of the Enlightenment are ____________.

• the basis for the US Constitution and all the rights we Americans believe we are entitled to today

• the basis for faith-based initiative and the argument for government religious schooling today

• the basis for all modern science and how we understand the physical world today

• the basis for absolute rule and the US support of absolute monarchies today

This was the intellectual movement (i.e. a change in thinking) that dominated the 1700s (18th century) in which thinkers applied the principles of reason/logic and the Scientific method to aspects of human behavior, especially government and social organization.

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Enlightenment or Age of Reason

• The Renaissance and the Reformation

• The Age of Absolutism

In general, in what century did the Enlightenment take place in Europe and it's colonies in the Americas?

• 18th Century

• 15th Century

• 20th Century

• 16th Century

In general, when did the Enlightenment take place in Europe and their colonies in the Americas?

• 1700s

• 1900s

• 1500s

• 1600s

All of the following are other ways of referring to the Enlightenment period EXCEPT:

• The Age of Reason

• The Age of Light

• The Neo-Classical Age

• The Renaissance

Who are the two most well-known composers of the Classical Music Period during the Age of Enlightenment?

Hint: these guys were influenced by and came after the Baroque Period of the 1600s...

• Bach and Vivaldi

• Mozart and Beethoven

• Simon and Garfunkle

• Tchaikovsky and Prokofiev

What do we call the MUSICAL PERIOD of the Enlightenment which dominated the 1700s (and came AFTER the Baroque period of the 1600s?)

• Classical Music

• Baroque Music

• Renaissance Music

• Medieval Music

What was the artistic and ARCHITECTURAL movement that developed during the Enlightenment (after the Baroque period)?

Hint: All of our most important government buildings are Washington D.C. are in this style!!!

• Neo-Classical Style

• Baroque Style

• Victorian Style

• Rococo Style

Our "founding fathers" and their ideas/values that they put into founding the USA were all deeply shaped by ________.

Hint: think Thomas Jefferson, Ben Franklin, John Adams, James Madison, Alexander Hamilton, George Washington, etc.

• the Enlightenment

• the Renaissance

• the Scientific Revolution

• the Reformation

If you only knew ONE date in American History it should be the year ______ in which we declared our break with England/Britain to become an independent country.

Hint: this occurred during the Enlightenment and was largely caused by Enlightenment ideas!

• 1776

• 1865

• 1620

• 1775