Long Enlightenment and American Revolution

Physiocrats rejected mercantilism in favor of a policy of

• social contract

• natural rights

• laisse faire

• philosophes

Which term describes the love of, or the search for, wisdom and knowledge?

• social contract

• philosophy

• natural rights

• natural law

"My trade is to say what I think." Who said this?

• Locke

• Voltaire

• Diderot

• Rousseau

What event revolutionized thinking and led to the Enlightenment?

• American Revolution

• Scientific Revolution

• Reformation

• Franco-Prussian War

Who described the era of the 1700s as "enlightened"?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Immanuel Kant

Who is the author of Leviathan?

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

Which group of people did Montesquieu's ideas affect most?

• scientists like Edward Jenner

• social critics in Britain

• enlightened despots

• the Framers of the U.S. Constitution

Who ruled Austria during the Age of Enlightenment, ending censorship and abolishing serfdom during his reign?

• Frederick the Great

• Daniel Defoe

• Joseph II

• Franz Joseph Haydn

Rulers who did accept some of the new ideas of the Enlightenment, but who continued to hold tremendous power, were called

• salons

• enlightened despots

• rococo

• great

Which phrase best describes the rococo style?

• lighter, elegant, and charming style of the Enlightenment

• grand, ornate style

• an informal social gathering

• developed gradually over time