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World History
Chapter 5 Test (Multiple Choice)
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society? | natural law |
| In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal what? | education |
| Physiocrats supported a government policy of _____________. | Laissez Faire |
| Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they ____________________. | wrote about the government and what was wrong with it |
| An enlightened despot was a ruler who _________________. | used their power to bring about political and social change. |
| Which enlightened despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their problems? | Joseph II |
| Because the American colonies were home to diverse religious and ethnic groups, social distinctions were _____________. | more blurred than in Europe, although wealthy landowner and merchants dominated government and society. |
| Why did Britain pass the Navigation Acts? | to make sure america only traded with them so that they would get all of the money |
| Why was the Battle of Saratoga a turning point in the American Revolution? | the american victory persuaded france to join the american side, which then convinced the netherlands and spain to add their support. |
| Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the ________________________. | scientific revolution |
| According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is _________________________. | absolute monarchy |
| The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker? | montesquieu |
| Diderot’s Encyclopedia was important because it ________________________. | explained topics such as government, philosophy, and religion in a set of books that came out one volume a year which made it easy for the middle class to afford and allowed them to gain some kind of an education. |
| Economist Adam Smith argued that, in a free market, business activity would be regulated by the forces of ________________________. | supply and demand |
| What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people? | john locke |
| Describe Voltaire’s novel Candide. | it was a fictional story that slyly exposes the corruption and hypocrisy of european society |
| Enlightenment writers sometimes tried to avoid censorship by ________________________. | disguising their ideas in works of fiction. |
| Elegant compositions by Handel, Haydn, and Mozart reflected a new musical style of the Enlightenment known as ________________________. | classical. |
| During the Enlightenment, what argument did government and church officials use to justify their war of censorship? | They believed that they had a sacred duty to defend the old order because they thought that God set up the order. They banned and burned books that violated censorship cause they thought that they were protecting against the attacks of the Enlightenment |
| In the 1700s, British merchants gained enormous wealth by dominating what type of trade with Spanish America? | The monopolized the slave trade |
| Which British laws imposed taxes on such items as newspapers and pamphlets in the American colonies? | the stamp act |
| What were the advantages of the colonists in the American Revolution? | The geography of the diverse continent, they were familiar with their home land’s thick woods and inadequate roads, they had a strong leader (George Washington), and their fierce determination to fight for their ideals of liberty |
| The Constitution created a federal republic, which divided power between ________________________. | federal (national) government and the states. |
| The idea of separation of powers in the Constitution was borrowed from Enlightenment thinker ________________________. | montesquieu |
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