SS Test

Question 1

Social Contract

Answer 1

An unwritten agreement between people and their government

Question 2

Magna Carta

Answer 2

Written in 1215 to limit the powers of the English King

Question 3

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 3

The idea that the government should express the will of the people

Question 4

Rational Will

Answer 4

Humans make their own decisions, and are responsible

Question 5

Deism

Answer 5

The belief that God created the Universe, then left it alone

Question 6

Natural Rights

Answer 6

Rights that all people are born with such as the rights to life, liberty, and property

Question 7

Relativism

Answer 7

People can have different views about what’s right and immoral

Question 8

Empiricism

Answer 8

Belief that knowledge comes from experience

Question 9

Francis Bacon

Answer 9

Important for laying down the practical methods of scientific investigation

Question 10

Rene Descartes

Answer 10

Quote “I think therefore I am” French philosopher and mathematician

Question 11

John Locke

Answer 11

Wrote Two Treatises of Government- the idea of a representative government (democracy) is best

Question 12

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Answer 12

Wrote The Social Contract envisaged a world of direct democracy

Question 13

Adam Smith

Answer 13

English economist who wrote The Wealth of Nations, encouraged free trade

Question 14

Baron de Montesquieu

Answer 14

Divided government into 3 branches: Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

Question 15

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 15

British writer who argued women should have the same rights as men

Question 16

Denis Diderot

Answer 16

Wrote the Encyclopedia, which was intended to pull together as much knowledge as possible

Question 17

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 17

Student of The Enlightenment, helped transport these ideas to the New World, inspired the American Revolution