Forms: WH Chapter 18 Test

The idea that the government only has the power given to it by the people in the Constitution.

• popular sovereignty
• limited government
• separation of power
• checks and balances

Applied to everyone and could be understood by reason.

• deism
• social contract
• absolutism
• natural law

Sailed west to find a new trade route to China and landed on the island of San Salvador in 1492.

• Ferdinand Magellan
• Christopher Columbus
• Jacques Cartier
• Vasco da Gama

The idea that a country gains more power by building up its supply of gold and silver.

• import
• export
• mercantilism
• colonialism

Means to buy goods from other countries.

• import
• export
• mercantilism
• colonialism

Means to sell goods to other countries.

• import
• export
• mercantilism
• colonialism

English Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural law and the rights of life, land , and property.

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

Enlightenment thinker who believed in the separation of church and state.

• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes
• Voltaire
• Rosseau

Believed in absolute monarchies and wrote the Leviathon.

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Voltaire
• Montesquieu

French Enlightenment thinker who believed in the separation of power into 3 branches of government.

• Thomas Hobbes
• Rousseau
• John Locke
• Montesquieu