Chapter 17 Enlightenment and American Revolution

Question 1

Who believed that people are basically good, but society corrupts them?

Accepted Answer

Rousseau

Question 2

Rules that are discoverable by reason

Accepted Answer

natural laws

Question 3

Believed that boys and girls should receive an equal education.

Accepted Answer

Wollstonecraft

Question 4

Which philosophe believed that in our natural state life is nasty, brutish and short?

Accepted Answer

Hobbes

Question 5

Which of the following was NOT a way to spread the ideas of the Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

censorship

Question 6

What two groups attempted to stop the spread of the Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

The Church and Rulers

Question 7

A new form of art during the Enlightenment that was "light, elegant and charming"?

Accepted Answer

Rococo

Question 8

Which of the following was a weakness for the British in the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

they did not send their best men

Question 9

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

high taxes

Question 10

Which of the following was NOT a result of the Boston Tea Party

Accepted Answer

a riot

Question 11

What was the debate surrounding the Bill of Rights?

Accepted Answer

Whether or not the Bill of Rights was actually necessary

Question 12

What battle ended the American Revolution?

Accepted Answer

Yorktown

Question 13

Which of the following battles convinced the French to join the war?

Accepted Answer

Saratoga

Question 14

Which of the following is NOT a method used by colonists to protest the Stamp Act?

Accepted Answer

sit in

Question 15

Which of the following was an enlightened policy of Frederick the Great?

Accepted Answer

religious toleration

Question 16

What was the name of the Enlightened Despot from Prussia?

Accepted Answer

Frederick the Great

Question 17

What was common during the French and Indian War?

Accepted Answer

smuggling

Question 18

Which of the following Constitutional ideas came from Montesquieu?

Accepted Answer

checks and balances

Question 19

What battle was the turning point in the war?

Accepted Answer

Saratoga

Question 20

What was the name of the acts which were put in place after the Boston Tea Party?

Accepted Answer

Coercive Acts

Question 21

Which of the following believed that governments should protect the general will of the people?

Accepted Answer

Rousseau

Question 22

Catherine the Great was ruler of what country?

Accepted Answer

Russia

Questions 22