Enlightenment & American Revolution Quiz

One of the main grievances of the colonists against the British Crown was…

• impressment

• excessive taxation

• fighting in the French & Indian War

• little direct involvement by the Crown in affairs in America

Two of the specific taxes that made American colonists bitter and angry were the Stamp Act and the Sugar Act.

• True

• False

Life, Liberty, and Property (Natural rights), and self-government were this Enlightenment Philosopher’s big ideas….

• Voltaire

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

Montesquieu proposed a new political idea that is still used today in America. What is it called?

• separation of the purse

• separation of Parliament

• separation of powers

• separation anxiety

Which Enlightenment Philosopher wrote about “government freely formed by the people,” and had his own version of social contract?

• Wollstonecraft

• Bolivar

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Women should be educated and women have the right to participate in politics. These were ideas championed by which Enlightenment Philosopher?

• Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Bolivar

• Locke

Which world-changing conflicts did the Enlightenment influence?

• American and Russian Revolutions

• Russian and French Revolutions

• English and South American Revolutions

• American and French Revolutions

Due process and the idea of “no cruel and unusual punishment” were championed by this Enlightenment philosopher:

• Voltaire

• Becceria

• Locke

• Hobbes