Enlightenment/American Revolution

Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

• challenged the old order

• supported absolute monarchs

• wrote short stories

• opposed new views of philosophes

Monarchs used the concept of _______, or that they only answered to God in support of absolutism.

• freedom of religion

• separation of church and state

• divine right

• war for religious purposes

Salons helped to spread

• geocentric theory

• Enlightenment thinking

• divine right ideology

• war for religious purposes

The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by

• Galileo Galilei.

• Nicolaus Copernicus.

• Francis Bacon.

• Isaac Newton.

What was the theory that the earth was the center of the universe?

• Geocentric Theory

• Heliocentric Theory

• Scientific Method

• Newton’s Law

Which thinker developed the Heliocentric Theory (sun centered universe)?

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Newton

• Kepler

In her book, A Vindication of Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argues that women and men should have equal

• job opportunities

• voting rights

• property

• education

An enlightened despot was a ruler who:

• held absolute power

• Influenced political and social change by including enlightened thoughts into ruling

• Allowed limited voting rights among enlightened thinkers

• Wrote satire to expose corruption- an enlightened philosophy

His ideas of separation of powers (3 branches of government) are found in the US constitution:

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

He believed the best form of government should be direct democracy (public elections) based on his ideas in the Social Contract.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Rousseau