Enlightenment and American Revolution Quiz

What was NOT one of the 3 major emphases of the Enlightenment?

• Science

• Society

• Political

• Religion

Who argued that distributing powers to separate branches of government would avoid tyranny and promote quality?

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

• Voltaire

• Locke

Cataloged the new Enlightenment worldview in his work, the encyclopedia?

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

• John Locke

Believed man had 3 natural rights: life, liberty, and property. Emphasized a government that had a limited amount of power.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Believed that men were naturally wicked and needed to live under a sovereign power to avoid conflict.

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Emphasized a separation of powers in government with a system of checks and balances.

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Conceptualized a social contract, or an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

Led the Sons of Liberty, a group that showcased the harmful British practices in the colonies.

• Samuel Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Marquis de Lafayette

• John Adams

Led the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War,

• George Washington

• Samuel Adams

• John Adams

• King George III

The monarch in Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution.

• George III

• Louis XIV

• Philip II

• George Washington