The Enlightenment

Question 1

Who came into power as a result of the Glorious Revolution?

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King William and Queen Mary

Question 2

What was the main idea of Baron de Montesquieu’s book The Spirit of Laws?

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Government should be split into separate branches.

Question 3

Which is a common question that philosophers asked during the Enlightenment?

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Does government have a responsibility to respect the rights of its citizens?

Question 4

The influential political text The Social Contract was written by

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau.

Question 5

When American colonists protested the idea of taxation without representation, what Enlightenment idea were they demonstrating?

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that people must have a say in the laws that they follow

Question 6

Who imposed the Dominion of New England on the American colonies?

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King James II

Question 7

Colonial leaders justified their plan to become independent from England by arguing that

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the king had violated their rights and had lost the right to rule them.

Question 8

The English philosopher John Locke wrote that

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all people have the natural right to life and liberty.

Question 9

In the Declaration of Independence, Thomas Jefferson argued that individuals had the right to

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life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

Question 10

Without Enlightenment ideals, which would have been least likely to happen?

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the Declaration of Independence

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