THE ENLIGHTENMENT & THE COLONIES STUDENT CLOZE TEST ANSWERS Correct answers in red Wrong answers in blue

Unlike the Great Awakening, which stressed religious emotion, the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. Mr. Franklin was a amous American Enlightenment igure. !his intellectual and scienti ic re"olution appealed mostl# to wealth#, educated men. $ut it, too, had ar%reaching e ects on the colonies. !he Enlightenment began in Asia, as scientists disco"ered natural laws, go"erning the uni"erse. &saac ''''''', or e(ample, e(plained the law o gra"it#. )ther Enlightenment people applied the idea o natural%laws to human societies. !he English ''''''''' *ohn +ocke, argued that people ha"e natural rights. !hese ideas are to +i e, libert#, and propert#, which became the ounding ideas or the American -e"olution and the amous American document, the Common .ense *ohn +ocke claimed that people create go"ernments to protect their natural rights. & a go"ernment ails in this dut#, people ha"e the right to change it. +ocke challenged the belie that kings had a God% gi"en right to rule. Enlightenment ideas o natural rights and go"ernment b# agreement in luenced leaders across Europe and the colonies. !he colonists began to wonder whether the $ritish go"ernment guarantee their rights and reedoms. )ne o the most important English rights was the right to elect representati"es to go"ernment. Go"ernment, England/s lawmaking bod#, was the colonist/s model or representati"e go"ernment. 0arliament was made up o two houses. !he king and '''1ueen''''were too ar awa# to manage e"er# detail o the colonies. +ike the citizens o England, English colonists in America wanted to ha"e a sa# in the laws go"erning ''''''''''. E"entuall#, the# would rebel and orm a new go"ernment.

THE ENLIGHTENMENT & THE COLONIES CORRECT CLOZE TEST ANSWERS Unlike the Great Awakening, which stressed religious emotion, the Enlightenment emphasized reason and science as the paths to knowledge. $en2amin Franklin was a amous American Enlightenment igure. !his intellectual and scienti ic mo"ement appealed mostl# to wealth#, educated men. $ut it, too, had ar%reaching e ects on the colonies. !he Enlightenment began in Europe, as scientists disco"ered natural laws, go"erning the uni"erse. &saac 3ewton, or e(ample, e(plained the law o gra"it#. )ther Enlightenment thinkers applied the idea o natural%laws to human societies. !he English philosopher *ohn +ocke, argued that people ha"e natural rights. !hese rights are to +i e, libert#, and propert#, which became the ounding ideas or the American -e"olution and the amous American document, the 4eclaration o &ndependence. *ohn +ocke claimed that people create go"ernments to protect their natural rights. & a go"ernment ails in this dut#, people ha"e the right to change it. +ocke challenged the belie that kings had a God% gi"en right to rule. Enlightenment ideas o natural rights and go"ernment b# agreement in luenced leaders across Europe and the colonies. !he colonists began to wonder whether the $ritish go"ernment protected their rights and reedoms. )ne o the most important English rights was the right to elect representati"es to go"ernment. 0arliament, England/s lawmaking bod#, was the colonists model or representati"e go"ernment. 0arliament was made up o two houses. !he king and 0arliament were too ar awa# to manage e"er# detail o the colonies. +ike the citizens o England, English colonists in America wanted to ha"e a sa# in the laws go"erning them. E"entuall#, the# would rebel and orm a new go"ernment.