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Separation of powers works because it allows for what between the different branches of government?
Checks and balances
Consent of the governed
Communication
Decision making
2
Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in...
The role of Church in society
Protecting the power of Kings
Changing the relationship between people and government
Soccer
3
John Locke believed that everyone was born with...
Natural Rights
Deniable Rights
Alienable Rights
Six Toes
4
What is the name of the following idea: God or a deity gives the right for monarchs or leaders to rule?
God Given
Divine Right
Absolutism
Federalism
5
The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment
Were global movements
Continued medieval traditions
Broke completely with classical traditions
Both held that reason could be used to improve humanity
6
Who said, "When the legislative and executive powers are the same person, or are the judge, there can be no liberty?
Bossuet
Rousseau
Hobbes
Montesquieu
7
Which time period had the greatest social, cultural, and intellectual influence on the Age of Enlightenment?
The Middle Ages
Age of Revolution and Change
Protestant Reformation
The Renaissance
8
A social contract is...
An agreement between a government and its citizens
An organization to protect citizens
A demand from the government
A demand of the people
9
Deists, such as Voltaire, believe that
a state church is necessary
there is no God
God reveals himself through miracles
God created the universe, but doesn't play an active role
10
Which type of government would Locke most likely support?
Aristocracy (government controlled by the nobles/royalty)
Democracy (government by the whole population, typically through reps)
Anarchy (no formal government just voluntary cooperation)
Oligarchy (small group of people in charge of the country)
11
Isaac Newton formulated...
The Speed of Light
Avagadro's Number
Plank's Constant
Universal Gravitational
12
What was Montesquieu's main idea?
Separation of powers
Natural rights
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
13
Sir Francis Bacon was famous for the development of...
Socratic Seminars.
the Scientific Method.
rationalism.
pork in dessert.
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Which breakthrough of the Scientific Revolution most challenged traditional religious views?
The study of mechanics that led to breakthroughs in machinery
The study of astronomy & the place of the sun in the solar system
The study of mathematics that led to ideas of probability, binomials, & -#s
The study of the anatomy of the human body
15
The separation of state and church is called...
Customs
Isolation
Secularism
Census
16
Thomas Jefferson used ideas from the Enlightenment while writing the:
Mrs. Dean's classroom rules
Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
Constitution
17
Who developed the heliocentric theory, sun-centered universe?
Kepler
Boyle
Galileo
Newton
18
Who was Copernicus?
He created the steam engine
He created the cotton gin
He discovered the Heliocentric model
He discovered gravity
19
Which type of government would Hobbes most likely support?
Democracy (government by the people with elected representatives)
Republic (government controlled by elected representatives)
Absolute Monarchy (a monarch whose power is without constraint)
Anarchy (a state of society without government or law)
20
Who said, "If there were only one religion in England there would be danger of despotism"?
Rousseau
Locke
Montesquieu
Voltaire
21
Isaac Newton
was an early American astronomer
created the 3 laws of motion concerning gravity and physics
was a famous philosopher famous for histheory of relativity
wrote the Theory of Evolution
22
Before the Enlightenment, most societies on Earth had this type of government.
Democratic Republic
Absolute Monarchy
Communism
Direct Democracy
23
Where did the Enlightenment take place?
Canada
Europe
Mrs. Dean's classroom
United States
24
Who agreed with the Copernicus and developed the law of planetary motion.
Johannes Kepler
William Harvey
Galileo
Issac Newton
25
What is the "scientific method"?
A set series of steps used by scientists only
An organized way of questioning, seeing, and answering.
none of these
A series of steps with a set order of use
26
Separation of state and church
Locke
Voltage
Paine
Voltaire
27
Mary Wollstonecraft believed that in which way women could find equality in society?
Education
Marriage
Political leadership
Job Training
28
Observational work done by Copernicus overturned what prevailing astronomical theory?
geocentrism
uniformitarianism
catastrophism
heliocentrism
29
In the 1600 and 1700s what was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world.
The Age of Reason
The Scientific Revolution
The Enlightenment
The Age of Revolutions
30
Who wrote The Social Contract?
John Locke
Voltaire
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Montesquieu
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What type of government would Rousseau most likely support?
Limited monarchy (monarch who is limited by a constitution/laws)
Republic (government controlled by elected representatives)
Oligarchy (small group of people in charge of the country)
Aristocracy (government controlled by the nobles/royalty)
32
Wrote the "Wealth of Nations"; father of modern capitalistic economics; laissez-faire.
Adam Smith
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Levine
Montesquieu
33
Along with the Age of Enlightenment and Reason, Europe was going through a period of progress and modernization known as
Scientific Revolution
Renaissance
Golden Age
Middle Ages
34
Denis Diderot was responsible for the publication of the first...
encyclopedia.
dictionary.
cookbook.
thesaurus.
35
One of the most famous mathematicians of the Scientific Revolution who formulated laws of gravity and motion was...
Renee Descartes
Isaac Newton
Denis Diderot
Francis Bacon
36
Thomas Hobbes believed in government control because people...
give into their most base desires and made bad decisions.
love to fight wars for power and control.
are easily manipulated by other people.
spend too much money on frivolous goods.
37
Adam Smith, the prophet and father of laissez-faire, believed that:
colonies were an essential source of competition
mercantilism was the only way to insure a truly free trade
the gov't should not interfere with the economy
the gov't should regulate the economy
38
Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, and Montesquieu are considered
prominent revolutionaries
contributors to the Scientific Revolution
successful entrepreneurs of the Industrial Revolution
Enlightenment thinkers
39
Deists believe in which of the following ideas (select more than one)?
Purely faith based religion
Observation
Reason
Rejection of religious revelation
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Who put forth some of the first modern arguments for the death penalty.
Voltarie
Beccaria
Montesquieu
Descartes
