Study Guide Seventh Grade – Enlightenment and Washington Trip Test
When: Monday, April 22
Type: Objective test (i.e., not an essay test but a basic test of facts). Questions will be multiple choice,
fill-in-the-blank, matching, and true and false.
Topics: The Enlightenment Thinkers and the Washington Trip
What to Study?
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pp. 830-836 in Lesson 2 of Module 24 in Textbook for World Civilizations
The PowerPoint of Enlightenment Thinkers and/or the Chart
Notes from the Films on Newton and the Marquis de Pombal
Notes from FDR and Washington Trip
The Enlightenment
Topic
Isaac Newton
Terms
Book of Nature
Gravity
Universal Laws
The Prism Experiment
Marquis de
Pombal
General Terms
Lisbon Reconstruction
Thomas Hobbes
John Locke
Charles-Louis
Montesquieu
Jean-Jacques
Rousseau
Limited government
Totalitarianism
The Enlightenment
Enlightened Despotism
The Leviathan
State of Nature
Social Contract
Absolutism
Two Treatises on Government
State of Nature
Natural Rights
Social Contract
Majority Rule
The Spirit of the Laws
Separation of Powers
Second Discourse
State of Nature
Social Contract
Popular Sovereignty
Questions
1. How did Newton’s theory of gravity
change how people thought about the
universe?
2. How did his prism experiment promote
science among the masses?
1. How did the reconstruction of Lisbon
reflect Enlightenment ideals?
1. Define each of the terms.
1. Why did Thomas Hobbes believe the
people did not have the right to replace
the king?
2. How was this argument different than
the Divine Right of Kings in the
Medieval Period?
1. Under what circumstances did people
have the right to rebel against a king?
2. Why did the authority of government
rest in the hands of the people?
1. Why did Montesquieu advocate for a
separation of government into
branches: executive, legislative, and
judicial?
1. Why did Rousseau believe that the
government should reflect the will of
the majority of the people?
Topic
Adam Smith
Benjamin Franklin
Thomas Jefferson
Terms
Capitalism
The Free Market
Free Trade
Economic Freedom
No Taxation without
Representation
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2.
Secular
Separation of church and state
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Questions
Explain free market capitalism.
Why did economists of the
Enlightenment believe in less
government control of the economy?
Why did Franklin believe the British
monarch had not right to tax the
colonies?
Why did many founding fathers believe
in the separation of church and state?
The Washington Trip
Topic
Franklin Delano
Roosevelt
Terms/Quotes
Great Depression
Fireside Chats
The New Deal
Relief, Recovery, Reform
The AAA
The CCC
The TVA
Quotes of FDR
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Martin Luther
King
Quotes of MLK
“The only thing we have
to fear is fear itself”
 “The test of our progress
is not whether we add
more to the abundance of
those who have much; it is
whether we provide
enough for those who
have too little.”
The Civil Right Movement
The Civil Rights Acts
 “Out of a mountain of
despair a stone of hope.”
 “We shall overcome
because the moral arc of
the universe is long but it
bends towards justice.”
 “Darkness cannot drive
out darkness. Only light
can do that.”
Questions
How did FDR change the relationship
between labor, the government, and
the economy during the Great
Depression?
2. Why did he feel like the government
had to assume this role?
3. Why did some people find this
threatening to the “American Way”?
1. Explain the meaning of each quote and
how it fit into the goals of FDR’s
administration.
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1. Define the terms.
1. Explain the meaning of each quote and
how it fit into the goals of MLK’s
movement.