Unit 5 CP Test V1

This age was defined by a new Philosophical movement that changed the way people thought (politics, religion, rights, etc) called the

• Renaissance
• Scientific Revolution
• Enlightenment
• Protestant Reformation

Which Enlightenment thinker believed that absolute sovereignty was the only solution for resolving the problems caused by the selfishness of human beings?

• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• John Locke
• Karl Marx

Which enlightenment thinker argued against the Divine Right of Kings and that people have the natural right to life, liberty, and property?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes
• Thomas Jefferson
• John Locke

A "social contract" is essentially an agreement that

• A Government will protect the basic natural rights and best interests of the common people
• Capitalism is unjust and must be replaced by socialism
• A signed agreement by citizens agreeing to abide by certain rules
• The divine right of Kings to rule as long as it is ordained by the Pope

This terms means, "let it be" and is used as an economic principal meaning that supply and demand regulates the economy, and government interference would only cause problems

• Communism
• Socialism
• Laissez-Faire
• Letue-Bein

What was the Bastille?

• An Industrial Invention for mass producing steel
• A new weapon that allowed Europe to become imperialistic
• A city in Spain that was briefly overtaken by the Portuguese in 1792
• A medieval fortress that was converted to a prison stormed by peasants for ammunition during the early stages of the French Revolution.

What purpose did the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen serve?

• It was a pamphlet used to encourage the American and French Revolutions
• It was created by the French National Assembly to give rights to all (except women).
• It was the foundation that Americans eventually used to craft the Articles of Confederation
• It encouraged early 1700s philosophers to think about rights and politics using science and reason

What occurred during the "Reign of Terror?"

• Native Americans were forced off their lands, causing many to die as a result of a difficult migration path
• Thousands of French citizens were executed for disloyalty to the crown
• Russian Czars ordered the execution of thousands of Cossacks
• The British Army open fired on American colonists, enforced unfair taxes, and forcibly removed colonists from their homes

The most successful slave revolt in history took place in what country?

• republic of Haiti
• Cuba
• Dominican Republic
• Mexico

The Haitian Revolution was led by whom?

• Gustave Courbet
• Pierre-Auguste Renoir
• Frederick Douglas
• Toussaint L'Ouverture