The American Revolution Revision

What does it mean for a King to have Divine Right? 

• Rules by the power and blessing of God. 

   

• Rules by the suggestions of the people.

• Rules by listening to the Church to make decisions.

• The King is not really in power at all.

Which Enlightenment thinker wrote the Leviathan and was a founder of the social contract theory?

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

Which enlightenment thinker wrote about natural rights?

• Thomas Jefferson

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Thomas Paine

If government fails to protect natural rights, what do the people have a right to do?

• People have no rights.

• Install a new dictator.

• Make the best of it.

• People have the right to overthrow the government and get a new one

 

This Enlightenment thinker believed in separation of church and state…

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Machiavelli

• Voltaire

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in the separation of powers (3 branches)

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu...

• argued that people are born with certain rights that no one can take away.

• thought that to keep any one person from becoming too powerful, the government should be divided into 3 separate branches.

• thought that if a government does not treat its citizens fairly, it can get rid of that government and get a new one.

• All of these possible answers.

 

The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights

 

Which phrase became popular after passage of the Stamp Act?

• The rights of Englishmen!”

• “Give me liberty or give me death.”

• “Life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

• “No taxation without representation."

What was the name of the underground activist group that instigated rebellious acts in protest of unfair taxes?

• Sons of Spirit

• Sons of Liberty

• Sons of Freedom

• Sons of the Flag