Enlightenment and American Revolution Review

Question 1

The ideas of Locke and Rousseau are found MOST easily in which of these documents?

Accepted Answer

The Declaration of Independence

Question 2

Becuase of the Boston Tea Party, the British passed the ___ Act(s).

Accepted Answer

Coercive/ Intolerable

Question 3

What war helped cause the American Revolution due to new debts and taxes collected?

Accepted Answer

French and Indian War

Question 4

Britain responded to the Boston Tea Party by

Accepted Answer

enacting a series of restrictive measures known as the Intolerable Acts.

Question 5

Which statement best describes a political theory of John Locke?

Accepted Answer

A government's power comes from the consent of the people.

Question 6

The Declaration of Independence and the "Social Contract Theory" both arose from which philosophical movement?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 7

Who supported "social contract" & wrote Two Treatises of Government?

Accepted Answer

Locke

Question 8

Which one of these statements BEST characterizes the central idea of the Enlightenment?

Accepted Answer

Logic and reason are capable of solving social and political problems.

Question 9

Which of these was a reason the American colonies were fighting a war for independence in 1776?

Accepted Answer

restrictions on colonial trade

Question 10

The theory that people form govts for mutual protection & govt rules only with the consent is the Social Contract

Accepted Answer

True

Question 11

Which European philosopher believed that the purpose of government is to protect natural rights?

Accepted Answer

John Locke

Question 12

"Unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness" is similar to what thinker?

Accepted Answer

Locke

Question 13

A government's power comes from the consent of the people is from what thinker?

Accepted Answer

Locke

Question 14

The Stamp Act angered colonists not because it taxed most documents but because colonists had no voice in its passage.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

One of the central reasons for the military success of the United States in the American Revolution was

Accepted Answer

financial and military assistance from France.

Question 16

The poster shown most likely refers to protests concerning which of these?

Accepted Answer

taxation during the colonial American period

Question 17

Which statement BEST describes the power of government provided by the Articles of Confederation?

Accepted Answer

The states had more power than the national government.

Question 18

Which philosopher developed the ideas of the social contract on popular sovereignty in 1762?

Accepted Answer

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 19

John Locke is associated with his discovery of planetary objects in an elliptical path.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 20

Sons of Liberty protested a British law that gave the British East India Company exclusive rights to sell?

Accepted Answer

tea

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