Revolution and Enlightenment Review

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What was the Enlightenment?

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An intellectual movement that stressed reason and the individual.

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What aspects of society did the Enlightenment movement reexamine?

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Government, economics, education, and social structures

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What is Thomas Hobbes' view of humanity?

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Negative and pessimistic

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According to Hobbes, what would life be like without government?

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Nasty, brutish, and short

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What does Hobbes's Social Contract suggest about the relationship between government and people?

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Government provides security, and people provide obedience.

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According to John Locke, what basic rights are people born with?

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Life, liberty, and property

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What does John Locke suggest people have the right to do if a government fails to protect their basic rights?

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Overthrow the government

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Who was one of the more radical enlightenment thinkers mentioned in the text?

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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What is the famous quote by Rousseau mentioned in the text?

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"Man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains."

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According to Rousseau, what do individuals create through free consent?

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Society and government