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World History Ch 17
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Who put his faith in the “general will” of the people? | Rousseau |
| Who believed in the powerful government? | Thomas Hobbes |
| Allowing business to operate with little government interference is called: | laissez faire |
| Rules discovered by the use of reason are known as: | natural law |
| Who thought government powers should be divided among three branches? | Montesquieu |
| How did the Scientific Revolution lead to the Enlightenment? | It encouraged people to use reason to try to understand social, political, and economic issues. |
| Who wrote that people have a natural right to overthrow a government that violates their rights? | John Locke |
| The philosophe who used sarcasm to expose government abuse was: | Voltaire |
| What book stated that only freely elected governments should impose control on people? | The Social Contract |
| The statement that best describes the ideas of Hobbes and Rousseau | Hobbes believed people in their natural state were bad; Rousseau believed they were good. |
| A Russian monarch who studied the philosophes | Catherine the Great |
| Saw himself as the “first servant of the state” | Frederick the Great |
| Restricting access to ideas and information | censorship |
| An Austrian monarch who supported religious freedom | Joseph II |
| A gathering where people could exchange ideas | salon |
| Influential opponents of the Enlightenment included: | church authorities |
| The statement that best summarizes the difference between baroque and rococo art | Baroque is grand and complex, while rococo is light and charming. |
| Bach, Handel, Mozart, and Haydn were all: | musicians |
| A literary form that developed during the Enlightenment was: | the novel |
| The statement that best describes enlightened despots of the 1700s | They kept absolute power for themselves. |
| Who kept notebooks about the writing of the United States Constitution? | James Madison |
| Who was a philosopher, scientist, and legislator? | Benjamin Franklin |
| The type of government created by the Constitution | federal republic |
| A leader of the Continental Congress | John Adams or George Washington (both were considered leaders) |
| The main author of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| When George III became king of Great Britain in 1760, he: | decided to reassert the powers of the crown |
| How did the French and Indian War lead to colonists’ dissatisfaction? | Colonists had to pay higher taxes to pay for the war effort. |
| The year 1776 is consider the United States’ birthday because: | the Declaration of Independence was adopted. |
| What idea of Montesquieu influenced the United States Constitution? | The separation of powers |
| What is the purpose of the Bill of Rights? | to recognize that the people have rights the government must protect |
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