WH Unit 5 Review

Enlightenment can be described as:

• an instrument to look at the sun
• type of slavery
• geographic feature
• gaining new knowledge

What did Enlightenment thinkers (Voltaire, Rousseau, Locke, etc.) base their ideas on?

• Ancient Roman and Greek documents
• Ancient Aztec and Mayan documents
• Church's teachings
• Old Testament

Which philosophe believed society should play a large part in creating laws and gov't leaders?

• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire
• Charles Montesquieu (aka Baron de Montesquieu)

Which major Enlightenment idea did Montesquieu promote?

• Freedom of speech
• Freedom of religion
• Separation of powers
• Absolute monarchies

Which important U.S. document was based on John Locke's "natural rights"?

• Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen
• Declaration of Independence
• Green Eggs and Ham
• Webster's Dictionary

Why is Voltaire important to world history?

• Wrote the Declaration of Independence

• Led the French citizens in revolt

• Wrote more than 70 books that promoted many of the liberties in the U.S. Bill of Rights

• Ended the Boston Tea Party

Who wrote the U.S. Declaration of Independence?

• Voltaire
• John Locke
• Thomas Jefferson
• George Washington

For the most part, Enlightenment philosophes wanted to:

• Continue slavery
• Start new slave trades
• Abolish slavery
• Didn't care about slavery

What did Copernicus and Galileo have in common?

• They agreed with Church teachings.

• They thought the sun was the center of the universe (Heliocentric Theory)

• They thought the Earth was the center of the universe (Geocentric Theory)

• Nothing in common. They believed opposite things.

All of the following are CAUSES of the U.S. Revolution EXCEPT:

• taxation without representation (high taxes, no rep in govt)
• French Revolution
• Enlightenment ideas (natural rights, liberties, democracy)
• Unfair trade laws such as Navigation Act