Enlightenment and Revolutions Quiz

Who was John Locke?

• A former slave who led the Haitian Revolution

• A creole from Venezuela who led revolutions against the Spanish

• A 17th-century philosopher known for the idea of the Blank Slate and social contract

• A colonist born in Spain or Portugal

What is the social contract?

• A French statement of basic human rights

• The idea that government owns the means of production

• The idea that people need to give up some individual rights for a strong central government and law and order

• A period during the French Revolution when the government executed opponents

What did the philosophes do in the 18th century?

• They set natural laws in motion but did not control day to day workings of life

• They desired to reestablish an independent homeland in the middle east

• They explored social, political, and economic theories

• They advocated laissez-faire capitalism

What is Deism?

• The belief in a divinity that set natural laws in motion but did not control day to day workings of life

• The movement that rejected traditional social, political, and religious ideas and focused on rationalism

• The idea that the government should own the means of production

• The period during the French Revolution when the government executed opponents

What was the Enlightenment?

• A philosophical movement in the 18th century that rejected traditional ideas and focused on rationalism

• A period during the French Revolution when the government executed opponents

• The joining of the kingdoms and city-states of the Italian peninsula into one unified government

• The government ownership of the means of production

Who advocated laissez-faire capitalism?

• Simon Bolivar

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• The philosophes

What is socialism?

• The idea that people need to give up some individual rights for a strong central government

• The government ownership of the means of production

• A philosophical movement that focused on rationalism

• The desire of Jews to reestablish an independent homeland in the middle east

What is the Declaration of the Rights of Man?

• A statement of basic human rights from the French Revolution

• The idea that a divinity set natural laws in motion

• The joining of the kingdoms and city-states of the Italian peninsula

• A period during the French Revolution when the government executed opponents

What was the Reign of Terror?

• The period when the government executed opponents of the revolution, including the King and Queen

• The movement that advocated laissez-faire capitalism

• The joining of the kingdoms and city-states of the Italian peninsula into one unified government

• The philosophical movement that rejected traditional ideas and focused on rationalism

Who was Toussaint L'Ouverture?

• A former slave who led the Haitian Revolution

• A philosopher who created the idea of the Blank Slate

• A creole from Venezuela who led revolutions against the Spanish

• A colonist born in Spain or Portugal