Age of Enlightenment Entry Event

Age of Enlightenment Entry Event

By M. Regalado

​The Age of Enlightenment, also known as The Age of Reason, was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries.

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Age of Enlightenment

​public intellectuals who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, and social issues

​​Philosophes

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believ​ed that religious truth should be subject to the authority of human reason rather than divine revelation

​Deists

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​belief that change should only occur if absolutely necessary in order to avoid a greater evil

​​Conservatism

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a theory that states that knowledge comes only or primarily from sensory experience​

​​Empiricism

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Public intellectuals who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, and social issues

• Deists

• Reformers

• Philosophes

• Conservatives

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Deists believed

• in a divine creator

• in divine revelation

• the concept of natural theology (that is, God's existence is revealed through nature)

• all of these

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Many of the Founding Fathers of The United States of America were deists.

• True

• False

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Many women played a prominent role in The Enlightenment.

• True

• False

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The idea of inquiry was central to which time periods?

• Middle Ages

• Scientific Revolution

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

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Natural Laws

• are unchanging

• are discovered through reason

• govern all human conduct

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Argued that science should be pursued systematically.

• Descartes

• Bacon

• none of these

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Argued that nothing should be accepted as true, unless proven.

• Descartes

• Bacon

• none of these

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Claimed that knowledge began with doubt, not faith.

• Descartes

• Bacon

• none of these

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Argued that people are cruel, greedy, and selfish

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Believed that people are basically moral and reasonable. They want to do the right thing.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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“In order to have…liberty, it is necessary that government be set up so that one man need not be afraid of another.”

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Believed having 3 branches in government would prevent tyranny.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Believed that without government, people would fight, rob, and oppress one another

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Came up with the idea of Social Contract- an arrangement where people give up their rights to be protected by the government.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Believed all people are born free & equal with three natural rights- life, liberty, and property.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Believed Government exists at the consent of the governed to protect their rights. If the government fails to protect these rights, the contract is broken and the people may change or replace the government.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Descartes

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Believed in the freedom of press and used it to expose the abuses of corrupt political and church leaders.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Fought for civil liberties- rights/freedoms of citizens

Freedom of Speech

Freedom of Religion

Separation of Church and State

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Believed that humanity’s worst enemies were intolerance, prejudice & superstition

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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French philosopher, art critic, and writer, best known for serving as co-founder, chief editor, and contributor to the Encyclopédie

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Called for the betterment of women’s status through such political change as the radical reform of national educational systems.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Believed that people were naturally good, but were corrupted by society.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Believed the good of the community should be placed above individual interests- common good.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Argued for a free market economy without government interference.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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Believed the government should stay out of the economy, and that government had a duty to protect society, administer justice, and provide public works.

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Smith

• Diderot

• Wollstonecraft

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What was the name of the pamphlet Thomas Paine published in 1776?

• The Age of Reason

• Rights of Man

• Common Sense

• The American Crisis

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How many copies of 'Common Sense' were sold in the first three months?

• 150,000

• 120,000

• 80,000

• 50,000

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Thomas Paine published a best-selling pamphlet called Common Sense in order to

• recognize all the people fought in the Revolution
• convince the British Parliament to go to war with America
• list the chaos that the Sons of Liberty had caused on the colonies
• convince the Americans that independence from Britain was necessary

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What was the purpose of Thomas Paine's "Common Sense" pamphlet?

• To establish the first self-government in the colonies

• To encourage colonists to demand their rights as citizens and support independence for the colonies

• To outline the rights included in the U.S. Constitution

• To define the concept of self-government

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Thomas Paine’s pamphlet Common Sense attacked which of the following?

• France for its failure to support the colonial war effort

• Politicians who believed a small island could not effectively rule a distant continent

• The authors of the Declaration of Independence

• The king of England and the principle of monarchy

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What was the significance of Thomas Paine's pamphlet Common Sense?

• It called for the end of the French and Indian War.

• It called for a return to British rule.

• It called for the abolition of slavery.

• It argued for American independence from Britain and the creation of a democratic republic.

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What influence did Thomas Paine’s Common Sense (1776) have on the colonists?

• It reconciled them with King George III of England.

• It established the framework for their later system of government.

• It persuaded them to declare their independence from Great Britain.

• It divided Northern and Southern colonists by calling for an end to

  slavery.

The Magna Carta created the moral and political premise that, in many ways, the American founding was built upon. The Magna Carta came to represent the idea that the people can assert their rights against an oppressive ruler and that the power of government can be limited to protect those rights.

It essentially limited the power of the King, and guaranteed rights to the citizens of England.

The Magna Carta

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The Magna Carta limited the power of the ​

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The writ of Habeas Corpus protects citizens against ​

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unlawful imprisonment

unlawful search

unlawful punishment

torture

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The Magna Carta introduced concepts were clearly foundational and central to both the Declaration of Independence and the United States Constitution.

• True

• False

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Ideas from the philosophes, and the Magna Carta were influential in the creation of which historical documents?

• The Gettysburg Address

• The Declaration of Independence

• The United States Constitution

• The Treaty of Rights

• The Wells Way

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