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What are the 3 basic natural rights that John Locke said everybody has?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Life, Liberty, and Leisure
Life, Liberty, and the American way
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of property
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Which thinker did
NOT
argue for personal property rights?
William Blackstone
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Smith
John Locke
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Who was the first to argue for the Heliocentric Theory?
Kepler
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Galileo
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Who argued that the purpose of government is to work for the "general will"?
Hobbes
Locke
Galileo
Rosseau
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What does the Heliocentric Theory say?
The Earth is the only object in the solar system.
The Sun revolves around the Earth.
The Earth revolves around the sun.
The Sun and the Earth are both stationary.
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What was the main idea that America took from John Locke
Civil rights are given by God, not the government
Legal rights for the poor
Separation of government powers
We need a strong king to keep us from fighting
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Who argued that people should be governed by consent?
Hobbes
Locke
Blackstone
Voltaire
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This idea allowed scientists to test and measure everything, starting the Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Method
The Geocentric Theory
The Scientific Magazine
The Heliocentric Theory
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What does it mean to govern by consent?
Government rules only with the agreement of the citizens
Government decides what is best
Government must be more powerful than the citizens
Government is totally illegitimate
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Before the Scientific Revolution, what were the 2 main sources of scientific knowledge?
The internet
The public school system
The Church and Ancient Greek scholars
The Church and Martin Luther
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"Reason" during the Enlightenment meant to
take what was told to you as truth
not to question
not question what you saw
not take what was told to you as truth and ask why
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Who was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life for supporting Heliocentrism?
Galileo
Copernicus
Kepler
Ptolemy
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Hobbes talks of a Social Contract in which people give up some rights in return for _______.
Safety, peace, and order
A bunch of lawyers
Extra freedoms
Cold hard cash
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How did the Enlightenment lead to a less religious outlook?
Offered new explanations for mysteries of nature
prompted people to question religious teachings
all of the answers are true
prompted people to question authority
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What was the main idea that America took from Montesquieu?
We need a strong king to keep us from fighting
Legal rights for the poor
Separation of government powers
Civil Rights are given by God
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Thomas Hobbes says that societies need have ______ to be successful.
Weak kings
Democracy
Powerful kings
King of Queens
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Rousseau saw this type of government as the best ruled by the citizens themselves
direct democracy
republic
constitutional monarchy
absolute monarchy
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The first ten amendments to the Constitution
executive order
Bill of Right
Preamble
Execute branch
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responsible for law of gravity
Coperinus
Galileo
Kepler
Newton
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Who gives people these rights that John Locke says we should have?
Kings and Queens
No one
God
Government
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Who argued that government exists to protect people's natural rights?
Hobbes
Blackstone
Copernicus
Locke
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observation, hypothesis, experiment, conclusion
religious tradition
religious scripture
scientific reason
scientific method
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Hobbes idea of a powerful ruler is seen in the role of this in the American government?
Supreme Court
President
Congress
military generals
24
What is another name for the Enlightenment?
The Age of Reason
The Reformation
The Renaissance
The Columbian Exchange
25
Who created the Geocentric Theory?
Plato
Copernicus
Aristotle
Galileo
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Which idea, taken from Montesquieu, became a part of the American system of government?
separation of powers
people have no right to revolt
people have the right to revolt
people are naturally wicked
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What does the Geocentric Theory say?
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
The Sun is the only object in the solar system.
The Earth is the only object in the solar system.
The Sun revolves around the Earth.
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He influenced Ideas of Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness in Declaration of Independence
Hobbes
Rousseau
Locke
Montesique
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Before the 1500s who and what were the final authorities with regard to most knowledge?
Enlightened philosophers
the poor class
Ancient Greeks/Bible
Scientists
