10.3-10.4 Quest Review

How did most thinkers during the Enlightenment believe society could be improved

• By applying scientific methods of reasoning to social problems

• By restricting individual rights and limiting free speech

• By increasing the power of monarchs

• By increasing taxes

___________ Applied to everyone and could be understood by reason

• Deism

• Social Contract

• Natural law

• Absolutism

What new concept did Montesquieu develop that was later included in the US Constitution

• Separation of Powers

• Social Contract

• Limited State Government

• Equality of People

Which European leader was influenced by Enlightenment thinkers to free serfs and make taxes equal for both farmers and nobles?

• Frederick II

• Joseph II

• Louis XIV

• Peter I

During the Enlightenment, Hobbes and Locke based their ideas about government on

• Absolute Rule

• Natural Law

• Social Rule

• Absolute Monarchy

Separation of Powers means that the government power is divided among different groups such as the executive, judicial and

• military branches

• religious branches

• legislative branches

• royal branches

One English writer that supported women's rights was

• Denis Diderot

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Francios-Marie Arouet

• Mary Wollstonecraft

Which leader built the Grand Versailles in France?

• Frederick the Great

• Louis XIV

• Maria Theresa

• Catherine the Great

Who wrote the first encyclopedia?

• Diderot

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Wollstonecroft

Hobbes was a supporter of absolutism

• True

• False