Enlightenment Review

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A right, such as life and liberty, that a person is born with

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natural rights

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An agreement between rulers and the people to cooperate for mutual social benefits in pursuit of a better society

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social contract

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Enlightenment thinker who was a pioneer for women's rights and education.

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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People are naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish. Powerful government needed to ensure orderly society

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Thomas Hobbes

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Fought for freedom of speech and opposed religious intolerance and corruption in government

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Voltaire

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Believed in the social contract. People are born good but corrupted by society. Limited and freely elected government

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Rousseau

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Belief that authority comes from reason and not God

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Enlightenment

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A political idea where the government is divided into branches that share power.

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Checks and Balances

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The Enlightenment is

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a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world

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

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John Locke