World History Unit 7: Absolutism, Enlightenment, and Revolutions

Philosophers believed that science and reason could improve society and government during which period?

• Enlightenment

• Reconstruction

• Renaissance

• The Dark Ages

"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" - Thomas Jefferson

Jefferson was influenced by which Enlightenment thinker when he wrote this?

• John Locke
• Rene Descartes
• Voltaire
• Isaac Newton

On what basis do absolute monarchs claim authority?

• Election by the people
• Military conquest
• Appointment by the church
• Divine right of kings or hereditary succession

Which of the following statements would and Enlightenment thinker believe in?

• People should submit to the will of the community 

• Political authority should be hereditary 

• Monarchs owe their power to the will of God

• The main goal of governments is to protect the rights of the people

The natural rights of man was a concept that could be found in the writings of Enlightenment philosophers.

• True

• False

The creation of a system in which there is separation of powers, adopted by the USA, can be attributed to...

• the teachings of Confucius
• the influence of Karl Marx
• the impact of ancient Roman laws
• the influence of political philosopher Montesquieu

American revolutionaries believed people had a right to change an unjust government because they were influenced by which movement?

• Renaissance
• Enlightenment movement
• French Revolution
• Industrial revolution

“The only representatives of the people of these colonies are persons chosen therein by themselves; and that no taxes ever have been, or can be constitutionally imposed on them but by their respective legislatures.”

• Statement by the Stamp Act Congress, 1765

What conclusion can be drawn from this statement?

• The colonial legislatures should be appointed by the English King with the consent of Parliament

• Only the colonists’ elected representatives should have the power to levy taxes

• The English King should have the right to tax the colonists

• The colonists should be opposed to all taxation

The people being the source of the power flourished in the United States under the concept of...

• dictatorship
• monarchy
• representative government

• communism

Enlightenment ideas question hereditary privileges

Financial crisis faced by the French Crown

Nobles refuse to surrender their tax exemptions

Assembly of the Estates General

?

Which statement would best replace the "?" in the list?

• Representative of the Third Estate form the National Assembly

• Austria declares war on France

• Louis XIV successfully dissolve the Estates General

• French nobles manage to preserve their privileges