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World History Questions
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Prologue, Section 4: The Enlightenment and the Democratic Revolutions
1. Review: What did the Renaissance encourage
people to do:
a. reach their full potential, or
b. hide in a closet and rub dirt in their hair while pulling
their teeth out?
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When you get a multiple choice question on these
HWs, write out the correct answer(s) not just the
letter. No credit for just the letter.
2. Fill in the blanks: Enlightenment
thinkers used the principles of _____ and
the methods of ______.
3. From whom did Enlightenment thinkers get the idea that there
were natural laws that humans could observe?
4. From whom did Enlightenment thinkers get the idea that all
human beings were equal?
5. Beginning around 1500, scientists used
the scientific method to discover laws of
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nature. Enlightenment thinkers applied
the same method to what?
6. What type of government did Thomas 24Hobbes think was best?
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7. Define: social contract
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8. What is the name given to rights that are God given and
cannot (or at least should not) be taken away?
9. John Locke wrote that all people had three
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basic rights by nature. What were they?
10. What three rights are mentioned in
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the Declaration of Independence?
11. Locke said people had a fourth right,
if a government violated (went against)
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one of the first three? What was it?
12. According to Locke, from whom does
a government get its right to govern?
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13. Jean Jacques Rousseau lived in France, not South Carolina. But his idea
that people should come together to defend each other’s freedoms has
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the same first letters as South Carolina. What is that idea?
14. Montesquieu had the idea that
government should be divided into three 25
branches. What’s this idea called?
15. What were the two big complaints
1.
that American colonists (people in
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American before America won its
2.
independence from England) against Britan?
16. In what Massachusetts city did the
American Revolution begin on
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4/19/1775?
17. Which Enlightenment idea from John Locke (and
Rousseau) most influenced the U.S. the writers of
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the Declaration of Independence?
18. Why did the founders of our nation
want a weak central government? What
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did they fear?
19. Why did the original U.S. government
(only a Congress, no president with most
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power in the individual states) fail?
20. What was the basic question that the
writers of the U.S. Constitution were
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faced with and what was there answer?
21. What is another word for
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“representative government”?
22. In a federal system, power is shared
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between who and who?
23. What idea in our Constitution did
our founders borrow from
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Montesquieu?
24. How long did James Madison spend reading books of the Enlightenment
thinkers Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau and Voltaire in preparation for the
Constitutional Convention of 1787?
25. Which came first, the American or
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French Revolution?
26. In what way was French society
unequal and unfair to common people in
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the 18 century (1700’s)?
27. For what other reason were the
French peasants (farmers) unhappy and
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restless (and hungry!) in the 1780’s?
28. Desperate for tax money, King Louis XVI (the sixteenth)
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the people? What was this assembly called?
29. The commoners (lowest class) stormed out of the Estates27
General and formed their owned assembly called what?
30. What was the French version of the
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Declaration of Independence called?
31. The U.S. Constitution set up a federal form of government
with a separation of powers. What form of government did the
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French National Assembly set up?
32. How did the French National
Assembly try to limit the power of the
Catholic Church?
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33. What three people or groups inside
of France were against the National
Assembly and the French Revolution?
34. Why did leaders in other European
countries around France invade France to
try to stop the French Revolution?
35. What happened during the Reign of
Terror?
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Minimum 20 words!
36. Why did the American Revolution
succeed and the French Revolution fail?
What was the key difference?
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37. According to the text, what four
things must a democracy have to work?
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38. When was the United Nations
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founded?
39. What is the main assembly of the United Nations called (in
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which all member nations are represented?)
40. For the first time in world history, the nations of the world came
together in 1948 and together agreed upon a list of rights for all
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people in the world. What was this document called?
41. Which of the following rights is not the United Nations’
Universal Declaration of Human Rights?
a. The Right to Life, Liberty, and Security
b. Equal Protection under the Law
c. The right to free movement
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d. The right to free assembly (w/ other people)
e. The right to have work
f. The right to rest and leisure
Reminder: When you get a multiple choice question
g. The right to an education
on these HWs, write out the correct answer(s) not
just the letter. No credit for just the letter.
h. The right to a really really bad hair day.
42. Why do you suppose the idea of
democracy has survived for the last 2,500
years despite attempts by many rulers,
armies and police forces to stamp it out
and gain total power for them selves?
Minimum 20 words!
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Minimum 20 words!
43. Does the future (your
future!) of the world belong
to democracy or tyranny?
Which will win out in the end
or will we always have both?
Explain your answer.
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