WorksheetsReview (Quiz 6 and the enlightenment)
Total questions: 35
Worksheet time: 30mins
Thinkers of the Enlightenment sought to use natural law to
find cures for major diseases.
solve social problems.
explain the workings of the solar system.
create lasting works of art.
In order to protect liberty, Montesquieu proposed that
people entrust their rights to a strong monarch.
government be divided into separate branches.
property be distributed equally among all people.
the press should have complete freedom.
How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment?
It revived the scientific thinking of ancient Greece and Rome.
It undermined the authority of the Church.
It encouraged people to use reason to solve problems.
It proved the existence of natural rights.
What did Thomas Hobbes believe about human nature?
People are naturally peaceful
People are naturally cruel and selfish
People are naturally obedient
People are naturally good
What did Hobbes believe is necessary to ensure peace and safety in society?
Oligarchy
Anarchy
Absolute monarchy with an all-powerful ruler
Direct democracy
What was the title of Thomas Hobbes's most famous book?
Utopia
Leviathan
The Prince
The Republic
Which Enlightenment thinker (because of his own experience with being in jail for his writing) supported ideas about freedom of the press, freedom of religion, and separation of Church and state?
Voltaire
John Locke
Montesquieu
Thomas Hobbes
Scientific Revolution thinkers liked to use (a) to understand the world around them.
Voltaire wrote (a) books about his government and country.
John Locke's ideas about everyone being born with a "Blank Slate" could be used to argue to (a) slavery.
This was NOT a cause of the French Revolution
France was deeply in debt
Inequality of French social classes
ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers
Religious issues
Clergy: very wealthy: Did NOT have to pay taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate General
Middle class, urban workers, rural peasants. Made up 98% of the population. Had to pay ALL the taxes
1st Estate
2nd Estate
3rd Estate
Estate System
Monarch of France during the French Revolution. He was beheaded and charged with treason for trying to flee France.
King Louis XVI
King Louis XIV
Marie Antoinnette
Robespierre
The document that increased the rights of all French citizens
Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen
Declaration of Independence
Tennis Court Oath
Constitution
Third Estate members vowed to never give up until a constitution was written.
Tennis Court Oath
Estates General
Estates System
Guillotine
Estate
Louis 16th called for a meeting of delegates called
The Meeting of Versailles
National Convention
Committee of Public Safety
Estates General
The machine used to behead enemies of the revolution is called
The Bastille
Sans-Culottes
Guillotine
The Great Beheader
He led the group responsible for “The Reign of Terror” and was beheaded:
Napoleon
Robespierre
Jacques de Bastille
King Louis XVI
