Enlightenment and Revolutions Test

During The Enlightenment, people developed new ideas about...

• the level of control the Sun exerts on Earth's orbit
• how their food crops should be grown
• the level of control they should have over their government
• how their houses should be arranged

Which Enlightenment Thinker is known for representative democracy and direct democracy?

• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Voltaire

Which of the Enlightenment philosophers believed the three branches of government should check the powers of one another?

• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• John Locke
• Wollstonecraft

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in the natural rights of "Life, Liberty, and the right to Property"?

• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Locke
• Rousseau

Under the idea of the "consent of the governed," what happens if government fails to protect the peoples' rights?

• Nothing. The people must always obey the government.
• The people have the right to change the government.
• The people have complete freedom and no laws.
• The government has complete authority over the people.

An agreement between rulers and the people to cooperate for mutual social benefits in pursuit of a better society

• natural rights
• social contract
• republicanism
• absolutism

What was one cause of the American Revolution?

• The colonists believed that political power should come from the consent of the people, not from a king far away.
• The French Revolution inspired the American colonists to revolt against British rule.
• The American colonists were upset about the Jacobins rule
• The enslaved people of St. Domingue revolted against their white captors.

Thomas Jefferson wrote "We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness." In the Declaration of Independence, this statement showed that Thomas Jefferson was influenced by:

• Montesquieu and the idea of 3 branches of government
• Wollstonecraft and the idea of women's rights
• John Locke and the idea of natural rights
• Voltaire and the idea of freedom or religion

Thomas Jefferson wrote "That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government..." In the Declaration of Independence, this statement showed that Thomas Jefferson was influenced by:

• Rousseau and the idea of direct democracy
• Hobbes and the idea of absolute rule
• Montesquieu and the idea of 3 branches of government
• John Locke and the idea of Social Contract Theory

Which of the following was not related to the American Revolution?

• The British put a tax on all legal documents, paper and even playing cards
• The British forced colonists to house, feed and clothe British soldiers
• The leaders of the colonists wanted to restore their connection the the Catholic Church
• The British placed a tax on sugar and molasses