MWH Midterm Exam

Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

• wrote in salons.
• wrote fiction.
• challenged old accepted ideas about society
• supported traditional ideas.

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation.
• Glorious Revolution.
• Scientific Revolution.
• Renaissance.

According to Montesquieu, the reason for separating the powers of government into 3 different branches was to

• make it easier for the government to limit individual rights of its’ citizens.
• make it easier for the government to pass laws.
• limit the power of the government and protect individual liberty.
• create the executive power of government

Which of the following is NOT an enlightenment idea?

• A monarch’s power to rule came directly from God.
• people are born equal in rights
• God granted each individual with natural rights.
• governments power to rule comes from the people

One of the major ideas from the Enlightenment is called popular sovereignty. What does this mean?

• No law should be passed without the approval of the Church.
• All ideas about society can be explained using reason and logic.
• Government's authority to rule comes from the people.
• Monarch's should rule with the best interests of the people in mind.

In general, the philosophers of the enlightenment believed in which of the following?

• women’s rights
• all Church decrees
• progress for society
• authoritarian rule

How does the Declaration of Independence embody John Locke's enlightenment ideas?

• It states that titles of nobility should be abolished.
• It establishes a system of checks and balances to ensure no one branch of the government becomes too powerful.
• It protects the rights of the accused and bans cruel and unusual punishment.
• It states that all people are created equal and endowed with God given rights

The Bill of Rights was added to the constitution in order to

• protect individual rights from the power of the national government.
• establish the judicial branch of government.
• to increase the power of the executive branch of government.
• give Congress the power to tax.

Before the French Revolution, who had the most power and privilege?

• peasants
• urban workers
• nobles
• bourgeoisie

All of the following ideas are spread to the rest of Europe by Napoleon EXCEPT

• equal rights for women
• equality before the law
• nationalism
• religious toleration