History and Political Science Multiple Choice Questions

What is Romanticism?

Which of the following statements is an argument of the Wealth of Nations?

• Governments should be directly involved in business.

• The free market leads to better outcomes.

• Trade restrictions benefit the economy.

• Wealth is created through labor.

Which is a form of government in which the ruler has all the power with no checks or balances on their power?

Which of the following is NOT a statement written in the English Bill of Rights?

• Law would be based on the rulings by judges in previous cases

• The monarch cannot levy taxes without Parliament's consent

• The right to bear arms shall not be infringed

• Freedom of speech in Parliament

Which of the following created a constitutional monarchy in England?

Who said it is the government's job to protect the natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Which statement does not describe Baron de Montesquieu?

How are the U.S. Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of Rights of Man similar?

• influenced by Enlightenment thinkers

• influenced by Romantic philosophers

• both advocate for individual rights

• both were written in the 18th century

What Renaissance belief helped prepare the modern world for democracy?

Which is not an example of an invention of the Industrial Revolution in England?