Unit 8 Enlightenment and Revolutions Review
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- Q1What is the name of the period built on the ideas of the Renaissance and Scientific Revolution, that focused on expanding human rights through social and political change?The Big ChillThe EnlightenmentThe ReformationThe Age of Exploration30s
- Q2Who promoted the ideas of natural rights, like life, liberty, and property?MotestquieiuVoltaireThomas HobbesJohn Locke30s
- Q3Who promoted freedom of speech and religion?WolstonecraftRousseauHobbesVoltaire30s
- Q4Who suggested separate branches of government?MontesquieuBecarriaVoltaireHobbes30s
- Q5Name the Enlightenment philosopher that supported women's rights?CaesarLockeWolstonecraftRousseau30s
- Q6Who proposed that the laws should be created by the general will of the people?RousseauBeccariaKing JohnHobbes30s
- Q7Thinking people were naturally bad, who believed the social contract involved giving up some rights in exchange for a strong but stable government?Mary WolstoncraftThomas HobbesRobespierreVoltaire30s
- Q8The big idea and result of this era saw an increase inTaxesMonarchiesExplorationCitizens rights30s
- Q9Centralized control of all political processes by the ruler describes a(n)Absolute monarchyDemocracyTheocracyRepublic30s
- Q10A major contributing factor to both the American and French Revolutions was a lack ofMonarchyTea and SugarRepresentationLeadership30s
- Q11The rise and fall of Napoleon lead to an increase of ________ in Europe?PeppapigismCommunismMilitarismNationalism30s
- Q12The revolutions of the era would not have been possible with out the support ofThe common peopleThe Catholic ChurchThe upper classThe king30s
- Q13As a way to limit power, and something American colonists were familiar with, what type of government had been established in Great Britain?a democracya totalitarian regimea constitutional monarchya theocracy30s
- Q14Enlightenment ideas about individual rights furthered the development ofstates of anarchydemocratic-republican govts.absolute monarchiessocialist empires30s
- Q15What early document set up the precedent that no leader may be above the law of the land?Hammurabi's CodeThe Magna CartaThe Bill of RightsThe Dec. of Ind30s