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5.1- Enlightenment

Total questions: 18

Worksheet time: 11mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

The Enlightenment emphasized ____ over tradition and ____ over community values.

a)

reason; individualism

b)

religion; inspiration

c)

philosophy; New World influences

d)

social science; independence

2.

feeling of intense loyalty to others who share one's language and culture

a)

nationalism

b)

empiricism

c)

conservatism

d)

socialism

e)

deism

3.

Thomas Hobbes

a)

people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

b)

people had natural rights

c)

government should have separate branches

d)

argued for religious and civil liberty

4.

John Locke

a)

people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

b)

people had natural rights

c)

government should have separate branches

d)

argued for religious and civil liberty

5.

Montesquieu

a)

people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

b)

people had natural rights

c)

government should have separate branches

d)

argued for religious and civil liberty

6.

Voltaire

a)

people couldn't be trusted, they were nasty

b)

people had natural rights

c)

government should have separate branches

d)

argued for religious and civil liberty

7.

Reform movement to end slavery

a)

abolitionism

b)

classical liberalism

c)

utopian socialism

d)

feminism

8.
Define "laissez-faire"
a)
the state should not impose higher prices on food
b)
the state should not impose government regulations but should leave the economy alone
c)
the state should not create new laws
d)
a blank mind
9.
An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection
a)
Philosophers
b)
Democracy
c)
Social Contract
d)
Divine Right of Kings
10.
Enlightenment thinkers and theories inspired
a)
A. the French Revolution
b)
B. the American Revolution
c)
C. other revolutions of the 1800s
d)
D. all of the above
11.

According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?

a)

Overthrow the government

b)

Petition the government for their rights

c)

Nothing, the people don't have rights

12.
Liberalism is associated with:
a)
keeping things as they are are returning back to a previous era
b)
abollshing property rights, universal suffrage, and redistributing wealth
c)
states ran by religious codes
d)
promoting social change that does not effect middle class social status
13.
What idea below was developed by Robert Owen and result in a "self-sufficient, cooperative community in which property was commonly owned."
a)
Utopian Socialism
b)
Utopian Capitalism
c)
Socialist Utopia
d)
Moo
14.

This 19th Century-ism appeals to the Bourgeois (professional class). Buzzwords would include Liberty, Constitution, Natural Rights, laissez faire, Choice, Equality, reform, individualism, progress.

a)

Conservatism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Socialism

15.

This 19th Century-ism appeals to the Aristocracy / Landed Gentry. Buzzwords are tradition, institutions, privileges. Proponents would Edmund Burke, and Metternich.

a)

Conservatism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Socialism

16.

This 19th Century-ism appealed to all social classes. Buzzwords would include spirit (Volksgeist), freedom, and independence.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Romanticism

d)

Feminism

17.

This 19th Century-ism appealed mostly to the working class (proletariat). Buzzwords words include; justice, equality, fairness, harmony, corporations, associations, organization, community, & freedom.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Socialism

d)

Feminism

18.

Which 19th Century-ism would best apply to Mary Wollstonecraft & John Stuart Mill. With their books A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, The Subjection of Women.

a)

Nationalism

b)

Liberalism

c)

Socialism

d)

Feminism