WorksheetsGovernment, Enlightenment, and Scientific Revolution
Total questions: 40
Worksheet time: 20mins
What is the following statement describing?
Government has absolute power, limits individual rights and freedoms, and citizens must obey.
Limited Government
Unlimited Government
What is the following statement describing?
Power is restricted, has a constitution, protects the rights and freedoms of citizens.
Limited Government
Unlimited Government
What was the main cause of the English Civil War?
Arguments over taxes & power between the king and parliament.
Arguments over taxes & land between the king and parliament
Arguments over taxes & power between the people and parliament.
Arguments over land & power between the people and parliament.
What two parties fought in the English Civil War?
congress and parliament
king and parliament
people and parliament
church and science
Who won the English Civil War?
The King
Parliament
The Royalists
Nobody
Which of the following are NOT ways that you can limit the power of a government?
Creating a constitution.
Establishing a democracy.
Establishing an absolute monarchy.
Separating to government’s power.
In an absolute monarchy, who has all of the power?
Parliament
Congress
King
Senate
Ina constitutional monarchy, what limits the power of the king?
Divine Right
Nothing
A monarchy
A Constitution
What is Divine Right?
The belief that the King's power comes from the people.
The belief that the King's power comes from the God.
The belief that the King's power comes from a constitution.
The belief that the King comes before God.
What is a tyrant?
Someone who goes against the will of God.
Someone who uses unrestricted power to control people.
Someone who establishes a fair set of laws.
Someone who sets up a limited form of a government.
What was the first document ever written that limited the power of the King?
The English Bill of Rights
The Constitution
The Magna Carta
Divine Right
During this time period, the monarchy was restored back to the throne.
English Civil War
The Restoration
Glorious Revolution
American Revolution
The English Bill of Rights did which of the following?
Took away individual rights and limited government power
Took away individual rights and gave government unlimited power
Recognized individual rights and gave government unlimited power
Recognized individual rights and limited government power
After the Glorious Revolution, England developed what type of government?
Absolute monarchy
Democracy
Constitutional monarchy
Dictatorship
When there was a constitutional monarchy in England, who was/were the leaders?
Charles I
William and Mary of Orange
James II
Oliver Cromwell
When Louis 14th was in power in France, what kind of government did they have?
Democracy
Dictatorship
Constitutional Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Peter the Great was in charge of an absolute monarchy in what country?
England
Spain
France
Russia
If a ruler forces all citizens to be home by 8 p.m., what kind of government is that?
Limited
Unlimited
A government that requires citizens to practice a certain religion is known as a what....
Limited
Unlimited
"The king is over-lord of the whole land, having power over life and death." This is an example of what type of government?
Limited
Unlimited
A government where citizens' rights are protected under a constitution is known as what type of government?
Limited
Unlimited
A type of government where citizens are allowed to vote for who runs the country is what type of government?
Limited
Unlimited
A ruler's power is shared with the people is what type of government?
Limited
Unlimited
The following are all ways that France and Russia continued to operate as unlimited government EXCEPT...
used military to enforce policy
dissolved the legislative body
raised taxes
shared powers with parliament
All of the following are purposes of a constitution EXCEPT...
gives individuals their rights
defines the role and powers of each branch of government
allows the king to have divine right
explains the relationship of the people to their government
This type of constitution "adds" power to the government.
negative
positive
neutral
dynamic
This type of constitution "takes away" power from the government.
positive
neutral
negative
dynamic
The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement that promoted the use of...
Military enforcement
Bill of Rights
Logic and Reason
Religion
Which one of Montesquieu’s main ideas about organizing government do we see in the U.S. today?
Rights of Minority
Monarchy
Divine Right
Separation of Powers
What did John Locke believe about government?
he believed that it was the government’s job to protect people's natural rights. he also believed that citizens could create a new government
he believed that it was the government's duty to abolish natural rights and that they should establish an absolute monarchy
he believed heavily in the divine right of kings and that all those in power should stay in power until they die
he believed in separation of powers and that the government's power should not stay in the hand's of just one person
What did Rousseau believe about society?
He believed that society was a well-functioning place.
He believed that people turned society into a monster.
He believed that society was a rude and corrupting influence on people.
He believed in the state of nature.
What served as the authority figure before the Scientific Revolution?
Parliament
The King
Science
The Church
“The condition of humans before political and social organization” is known as what belief?
Social Contract Theory
State of Nature
Divine Right
Bill of Rights
"A government and its citizens are supposed to mutually benefit from one another," defines what theory?
Divine Right
Social Contract Theory
State of Nature
Separation of Powers
Before the heliocentric theory, most people believed what about our solar system?
They believed that the earth was the only planet in our system.
They believed that the sun was the center of the universe.
They believed that the earth was the center of the universe.
They believed that our solar system had a twin system in another galaxy.
"The sun is the center of the universe, and all the planets rotate around it," is what theory?
Geocentric Theory
Laws of Motion
Scientific Method
Heliocentric Theory
What was Issac Newton's most significant contribution to science?
The Laws of Gravity
The Laws of Motion
The Laws of Science
The Scientific Method
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes’ experimentation and use of reason contributed to this process.
Geocentric Theory
Heliocentric Theory
Laws of Gravity
Scientific Method
How did the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment affect traditional religious beliefs?
The church abandoned the Bible.
The church accepted all the new scientific findings.
The church's teachings were accepted by all.
People began to question the teachings of the church.
Because of the church, what were many scientists forced to do with their findings?
Give a speech about them.
Throw them away.
Write them into law.
Make everyone believe them.
