Midterm Exam Review

Tenement Houses are

• Apartment buildings in the city that meets the minimum standards for safety.

• Single Family Housing in the cities

• Multiple families living together in a spacious well-kept apartment

• Housing set up for immigrants that offers education and job skills

The first three articles of the U.S. Constituion, which outline the separation of powers in the new U.S. government, reflect the beliefs of

• John Milton

• Baron De Montesquieu

• Denis Diderot

• John Locke

Voltaire believed in which Enlightenment concept?

• Religious Beliefs

• Military strength

• Freedom of Speech

• Absolute Rulers

The French Revolution came to fight for "liberty, equality, and fraternity." Where do these beliefs come from (in other words, what inspired the French Revolution?)

• Feudalism and monarchy
• Industrialization and capitalism
• Ancient Roman Empire and Greek philosophy
• Enlightenment Philosophy

Which Enligthenment Thinker was known for his belief in natural rights - life, liberty, and property

• Adam Smith
• Karl Marx
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke

Enlightenment Thinkers believed that humans were naturally good and would act for the

• common good

• supernatural neutral
• artificial good
• unnatural evil

According to the Social Contract, the people have the right to overthrow the government if it does what?

• failed to compel obedience

• Violates people's natural rights

• failed to protect people from economic inequality

• entered into alliances with former governments

During the Enlightenment the mercantilist system was challenged because they believed they should have an economic system that was:

• equal participation between the government and the people

• based off old traditions

• run entirely by the government

• A free market with limited government regulations

Adam Smith, an economist from the Enlightenment Era, believed that:

• Government control and regulation of the market
• Bartering system and fixed prices
• Socialism and central planning
• The wealthy need to be protected from the poor.

The Declaration of Independence officially declared the United States free from this Empire:

• Spanish

• French

• Ottoman

• British