Age of Enlightenment

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Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things? (Options: power and privilege, money and fame, good looks and charm, reason and logic)

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reason and logic

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French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion

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Voltaire

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

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John Locke

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Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one?

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Locke

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The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

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Natural Rights

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According to what you have learned, who said women should be treated as equal as men?

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

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Montesquieu

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Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

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True

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Locke believed that a government's power came from its ___________________.

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people

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How did the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers most influence popular revolutions in France and in the United States?

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by challenging the belief in the divine right of kings