Topic #12B

Question 1

A policy that allows businesses to operate without government interference

Accepted Answer

laissez faire

Question 2

Philosopher who believed that people were basically good.

Accepted Answer

Jean Jacques Rousseau

Question 3

The powers of a (n)________ are defined and limited by law.

Accepted Answer

constitutional government

Question 4

A grand and complex artistic style

Accepted Answer

baroque

Question 5

An agreement by which people give up their natural state for an organized society

Accepted Answer

social contract

Question 6

Joseph II was a (n) ________ because he used Enlightenment ideas to bring about political and social change.

Accepted Answer

enlightened despot

Question 7

German composer of religious music for choirs and organ

Accepted Answer

Johann Sebastian Bach

Question 8

A government in which the ruling power belongs to a few people

Accepted Answer

oligarchy

Question 9

Life, liberty, and property are examples of ——————.

Accepted Answer

natural rights

Question 10

A social gathering in which artists and thinkers exchange ideas

Accepted Answer

salon

Question 11

A(n)________ believed that natural laws could be used to define economic systems

Accepted Answer

physiocrat

Question 12

Editor of the controversial Encyclopedia

Accepted Answer

Denis Diderot

Question 13

Whig leader often called Britain’s first prime minister

Accepted Answer

Robert Walpole

Question 14

According to Hobbes and Locke, human nature was governed by _________

Accepted Answer

natural laws

Question 15

Author of pamphlet encouraging Americans to declare independence from Britain

Accepted Answer

Thomas Paine

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