Absolutism and Enlightenment

The belief that a monarch receives power from God alone, not the people?

• Divine Right of Kings
• Social Contract Theory
• Democracy
• Communism

English document written in 1215 defining the powers and rights of the King and English citizens?

• Magna Carta
• Declaration of Independence
• English Bill of Rights

• Constitution of the United States

Political system in which a monarch holds complete and total power?

• Democracy
• Communism
• Enlightened Monarch

• Absolute Monarchy

The idea that people agree to give up certain freedoms in exchange for protection?

• Social Contract Theory
• Laissez-Faire

• Natural Rights

• Rationalism

A system of thought described by Descartes that claims that reason is the chief source of knowledge?

• Rationalism
• Age of Reason

• Laissez-Faire

• Social Contract Theory

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

• Equal rights to own property

• Equal access to education

• Women should have more rights than men
• Men should have more rights than women

Which of the following ideas shows the influence of Montesquieu on the U.S. government?

• The U.S. divided the federal government into 3 co-equal branches

• The idea of a two-party system
• The idea of a direct democracy
• The concept of a unitary government

The ideas of popular sovereignty and consent of the governed, in which a government’s authority comes from the people, was first described by?

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Immanuel Kant

Which of the following was NOT a way in that Enlightenment ideas were spread?

• Through books and pamphlets
• Through the spoken word
• Enlightenment ideas were compiled in Diderot’s Encyclopedie, which people could purchase and read

• Absolute monarchs like Louis XIV supported Enlightenment ideas

Which is an example of an Enlightenment idea that still influences the lives of Americans today?

• The belief in the supernatural
• The idea of divine right of kings
• The idea of natural rights
• The concept of feudalism