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The Enlightenment and American Revolution
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What did Rousseau believe in?
Social Contract
Three Branches of Government
Natural Rights
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Which act put a tax on paper?
Tea Act
Sugar Act
Currency Act
Stamp Act
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What is the Constitution?
Created a new government that was strong at the national level
Supreme law of the United States
States how the government will run and waht will be in the government
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Who was the leader of the Continental Army?
Thomas Jefferson
Benjamin Franklin
John Adams
George Washington
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How did writers fight back against censorship?
Thrown in jail
Fled to London
Wrote their ideas in fiction
Moved to America
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English King who put all of the taxes on the Colonies
Ivan the Terrible
George III
Joseph II
King Tut
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How was Thomas Hobbes impacted for his insight of strong government?
Witnessed a bloody war where people were killing each other
Witnessed a peaceful revolution
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What document was written at the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia?
Bill of Rights
The Constitution
Treaty of Paris
Declaration of Independence
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What is the bill of rights?
Natural rights
Allows the king to rule however he wants
Allows people to act however they want
First 10 amendments to the Constitution
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What was the Articles of Confederation?
Had a very strong national government
First attempt at a government for the colonies
Used a government similar to a monarchy
Very strong government that we still use today
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What were Montesquieu's thoughts?
Wanted a king or queen to be an absolute ruler
Wanted separation of powers
Three branches of government
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What are natural rights?
Life, Liberty, Property
Life, Happiness, Love
Life, Liberty, Poverty
Live, Laugh, Love
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Where did the Enlightenment start?
Russia
Britain
France
China
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Who believed that society needed a strong government to run smoothly?
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
Rousseau
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How did Voltaire share his ideas?
Led many salons
Wrote ideas in his books
Ruled over peasants
Spoke to large groups
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Who were enlightened despots?
Joseph II
George III
Frederick the Great
Catherine the Great
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Suggests that the government should have no interference with the economy. "Hands-off"
Mercantilism
Laissez-Faire
Physiocrat
Philosophe
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Who believed that the people should have more say in their government?
John Locke
Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
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What group threw tea into the Boston Harbor?
Sons of God
Sons of Liberty
Sons of Anarchy
Sons of George
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What happened at the Boston Massacre?
Colonists were telling soldiers sorry for the way they acted
British soldiers living with colonists and taking food
British soldiers hugged the colonists
British soldiers shot and killed colonists
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What did Mary Wollstonecraft believe in?
Men should always be greater than women
Women should run everything
Women should be equal to men
Men should leave every women alone
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What was a salon?
Place where people live
Social gatherings where people educated each other
Castle where the king or queen lives
Place to get your hair done
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What helped the start of the American Revolution?
The King helping out the colonists
British taking away taxes
British being nice and helping out the colonists
The Enlightenment
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Where was the Constitutional Convention held?
Philadelphia
Baltimore
Washington D.C.
Boston
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What is an enlightened despot?
Monarchs who didn't want any change
Leaders who wanted the best for themselves
Monarchs who reformed
A monarch who tried to change with the ideas of philosophers
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What was the Enlightenment?
The government wanted people to be free without rules
New insight on government, religion, economics, and education
Philosophers wanting monarchies to control everything
People wanted to be controlled by government
