Final review

What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Rene Descartes

• John Locke

 In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal

• Property rights

• Education

• Voting rights

• Employment opportunities

Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

• Wrote fiction

• Challenged the old order

• Supported traditional ideas

• Wrote in salons

An enlightened despot was a ruler who

• influenced political and social change

• gave up absolute power

• allowed limited voting rights.

• wrote satire to expose corruption.

In 1789, the delegates to the Estates-General that broke away and declared themselves to be the National Assembly were from the

• First estate

• Second estate

• Third estate

• Fourth estate

The first violent event of the French Revolution, which occurred on July 14, 1789, was

• the Tennis Court Oath.

• the storming of the Bastille prison.

• the formation of the National Assembly.

• the Reign of Terror.

The women who marched on Versailles refused to leave until the king agreed to

• reduce the price of bread

• return to Paris.

• open government jobs to the poor.

• give up the throne.

Under the Napoleonic Code

• men regained complete authority over their wives

• most Enlightenment principles were abandoned.

• the practice of religion was banned.

• many aspects of feudalism were restored.

During the Industrial Revolution, life changed in what basic way?

• People migrated from villages to work on large farms.

• People began selling their goods instead of trading them.

• People learned to use machines to make their own clothes.

• People migrated from rural areas to cities.

The putting-out system was a method of

• removing iron from its ore.

• separating seeds from cotton.

• producing cloth in individual homes

• spinning thread with water power.