Question 1

What was another name for"The Enlightenment"

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The Age of Reason

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The Renaissance

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the age of knowledge

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The Time of questions

Question 2

What are natural laws?

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Laws or rules made by discoveries and reason

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Rules made by monarchs

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Laws made by nature

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Rules that come from natural rights

Question 3

Thomas Hobbes believed that people couldn't be trusted and needed _________ to keep order.

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strong governent

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a constitution

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natural rights

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as social contract

Question 4

Philosophes were known as _____________

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"lovers of wisdom"

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philosophers who hated stupidity

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phsiocrats

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men who were religiously tolerant

Question 5

A Russian monarch who sought to abolish capital punishment and torture.

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Catherine the Great

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Frederick the Great

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Karl Marx

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JosephII

Question 6

Which city was the center of the Enlightenment during the 1700s

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Paris

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Dresden

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London

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Copenhagen

Question 7

A gathering where people could exchange ideas was called

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salon

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baroque

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rococo

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censorship

Question 8

Restricting access to information and ideas is called

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censorship

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serfdom

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limited access

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closed captioning

Question 9

What is the term for dividing the government into different branches

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separation of powers

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Spirit of the Laws

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democracy

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absolute monarchy

Question 10

Allowing business to operate with little government interference  is called

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laissez faire

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social contract

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philosophy

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natural right

Question 11

This person believed government powers should be divided among 3 branches

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Montsquieu

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Locke

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Hobbes

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Beccaria

Question 12

Who wrote that people have the right to overthrow governent that violates their rights?

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John Locke

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Thomas Hobbes

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Cesare Beccaria

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Adam Smith

Question 13

This philosopher urged equal education and greater rights for woen

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Wollstonecraft

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Smith

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Voltaire

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Beccaria

Question 14

the British taxed the colonists to help pay for what?

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war debt

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food

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representation

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infrastructure

Question 15

The Sugar Act of 1764 was what kind of tax?

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import tax

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food tax

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export tax

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political tax

Question 16

What was the first document to govern the United States

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Articles of Confederation

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The Bill of Rights

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Magna Carta

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The US Constitution

Question 17

The Bill or Rights are the first _________

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1st 10 amendments to the US Constitution .

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Surrender conditions in the treaty of Paris

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Laws stated in the Articles of confederation

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2 paragraphs of the Declaration of Independence

Question 18

The basic rights that the US government had to protect were the freedom of speech, press and_________

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religion

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education

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assmebly

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petition

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