Question 3 (1 point) All the following were changes, as a result of, the Scientific Revolution EXCEPT:

Question 3 options:

Science became a distinct way of gaining knowledge through observation, experimentation, and mathematics.

People began to understand so much more about nature.

Science replaced old views that nature was mysterious, and thinkers began to experiment and observe.

Scientists became less interested in technology.

Question 4 (1 point)
All of the following are characteristics of the shift to Enlightenment thinking EXCEPT:

Question 4 options:

Enlightenment thinkers created social standards based on reason, not tradition.

Enlightenment thinkers preferred monarchy rather than democracy.

Enlightenment thinkers preferred democracy rather than monarchy.

Enlightenment thinkers preferred to solve problems with intelligent discussion rather than violence.

Question 5 (1 point)
Compare Enlightenment thinkers John Locke and Baron de Montesquieu, which statement below best reflects these two thinkers’ influence on the United States.

Question 5 options:

Jefferson quoted Montesquieu when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, and Locke’s ideas were used to incite revolution against King George.

Locke and Montesquieu did not influence the United States at all.

Locke’s Two Treatises of Government was adopted my American leaders and added to the Constitution, but Montesquieu’s ideas were considered preposterous.

Locke’s ideas of life, liberty and property influenced Thomas Jefferson when he wrote the Declaration of Independence, while Montesquieu’s ideas of separation of powers was included in the U. S. Constitution.

Question 6 (1 point)
Enlightenment ideals led to violent struggles like the American and French Revolutions as Enlightenment ideas like freedom from oppression led people to overthrow monarchs and try to implement systems based on equality and democracy.

Question 6 options:
True
False
Question 7 (1 point)
Place the events leading up to the American Revolution in the correct order to show the changes that ultimately led the colonists to declare independence from Great Britain and fight in a revolution to gain their freedom from monarchy.

Question 7 options:

Jefferson wrote the Declaration of Independence and the Revolutionary War started with the Battles of Lexington and Concord.

Colonists sent delegates to the First Continental Congress and started forming militias.

The Proclamation of 1763 was passed, forbidding colonists from settling west of the Appalachians and tensions increased.

To reduce the debt from the French and Indian War, England began taxing the colonists.

The colonist objected because they were not being represented in Parliament.

After the Boston Tea Party, the British responded with more legislation including the Quartering Act, which forced colonists to House British soldiers.