American colonists showed their dissatisfaction with "no taxation without representation by causing this disturbance in Massachusetts.
What is the Boston Tea Party.
100
The European country that first came to the aid of the colonists during the American Revolution.
What is France?
100
Philosopher, scientist, publisher, inventor, diplomat, and one of the framers of the Constitution.
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
100
The first ten amendments.
What are the Bill of Rights?
100
Rules discoverable by reason.
What are natural laws?
200
This man led the Continental Army.
Who is George Washington?
200
The document that ended the American Revolution.
What is The Treaty of Paris?
200
This man was the key author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
He wrote a 28 volume encylopedia that spread Enlightenment ideas throughout Europe and America.
Who is Diderot?
200
Locke's view of the rights belonging to all people at birth.
What are natural rights?
300
This act imposed taxes on newspapers and pamphlets in the colonies.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
What are the three branches of government?
What is the legislative, judicial, and executive?
300
This Enlightenment thinker believed that government had an obligation to protect the peoples' natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
300
An economic system allowing business to operate with little or no government interference.
What is laissez faire?
300
Restrictions on access to ideas or information.
What is censorship?
400
He believed that people were basically bad and needed a strong, absolute monarch to control a society.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
400
Magnetism and gravity are examples of these.
What are natural laws?
400
The philosophe who believed that in order to protect liberty, the government should be divided among three branches. He also proposed a system of checks and balances.
Who is Montesquieu?
400
An absolute ruler who uses power to bring about political and social change.
What is an enlightened despot?
400
A government in which the power is divided between the federal government and the states.
What is a federal republic?
500
The philosophe who wrote and spoke out against the French government and the Catholic Church. He wrote under a different name and was eventually exiled.
Who is Voltaire?
500
French thinkers who focused on economic reforms based on natural laws.
Who are physiocrats?
500
He wrote The Social Contract and believed that people in their natural state were basically good.
Who is Rousseau?
500
John Locke's idea that all government power comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
500
French thinkers who believed that the use of reason could cause reforms of government, law, and society.