Unit 9 Test

A freedom people are born with relating to life, liberty, and property is called

• natural theses
• natural rights
• separation of rights
• natural laws

The Enlightenment was

• a period of time when the light bulb was invented
• a period of time when people enjoyed being ruled by a king
• a period of time when Kung Fu was born
• a period of time when people had new ideas about governments

What do we call a person's ability to be free and independent?

• liberty
• rights
• power
• unfair

What is it called when parts of government have a duty to watch the other parts of government?

• separation of powers
• liberty of power
• checks and balances
• Montesquieu's law

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic
• power and privilege

What are the Natural Rights?

• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Option 4
• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.

Under the idea of the "consent of the governed," what happens if government fails to protect the peoples' rights?

• Nothing, people must obey the government
• People would be forced to enter into a social contract
• The people would be returned to a state of nature
• The people would have a right to revolt

A philosophical movement beginning in France that advocated Reason and logic as the basis of authority and all decisions and using reason and logic to solve social problems

• Scientific Revolution
• The Reformation
• Absolutism
• The Enlightenment

John Locke and Voltaire both contributed to what American Thinker, who helped write the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson
• General Cornwallis
• Benedict Arnold
• George Washington

Which Enlightenment Thinker believed that people are naturally bad, and need to be governed by an absolute monarch?

• Thomas Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Voltaire
• John Locke