Exam 8: Europe During the Enlightenment

Catherine the Great's effort to codify Russian Law along enlightened models was abandoned after:

Unlike the French physiocrats who believed that the wealth of a nation came from the land and agricultural production,Adam Smith believed that the wealth of a nation came from its:

How can the American Revolution be seen as an example of putting the ideals of the Enlightenment into place?

Of all thinkers from the scientific revolution,John Locke had the widest-ranging impact on Enlightenment scholars.

What was the Enlightenment,and what role did the scientific revolution play in its creation?

Voltaire was against religion in all forms

France entered into war with Britain on behalf of the American colonies following the battles at Lexington and Concord.

Literacy rates were highest in the country where industry was slower and communities were closer to enable education and the borrowing of books.

According to the Abbé Guillaume Thomas François Raynal,the one event that had a profound impact on Europeans was the:

The classic argument for laissez-faire policy came from:

In The Spirit of the Laws,Baron de Montesquieu argued:

Unlike the writers of the scientific revolution,the Enlightenment writers wrote for large audiences.

Laissez-faire economics originated in the writings of the Scottish economist Adam Smith who argued against state monopolies and for the encouragement of individual interests in the economy.

The philosophes of the eighteenth century used people's houses in which to meet and converse on a more informal basis than that provided by the royal academies.These informal meetings were known as:

How did the writers and thinkers of the Enlightenment deal with the topic of slavery?

Poland suffered repeated losses of its territory to which countries?

_________ was a Jewish philosopher who argued that religion should be voluntary,that secular states should promote tolerance,and that progress for everyone would come through humanitarianism.

What was the impact of the exploration of the Pacific world on Europe?

The Enlightenment encouraged critical reflection on all of the following except:

Deism,the "religion" of the Enlightenment,expressed the belief that: