Enlightenment Review

Absolutism was an old idea that gave total and absolute power to a:

• Democracy

• Monarchy

• Parliament

• Oligarchy

The divine right of kings stated that a king's power to rule came from:

• The people

• the government

• God

• The nobles

Enlightenment thinkers were also known as :

• Socialists
• Reformers
• Philosophes
• Radicals

Who proposed the idea that all men are born with natural rights, which included life, liberty and property?

• John Locke
• Voltaire
• Thomas Hobbes
• Baron de Montesquieu

Thomas Hobbes said that people should enter a _______________ where they will give up some of their freedom in exchange for law and order.

• natural rights

• moral law

• enlightened despot

• social contract

Montesquieu believed that government should

• be ruled by an absolute monarch
• be divided into separate branches
• be a social contract
• provide freedom of speech

In order to keep one branch of government from becoming too powerful, Montesquieu suggested a system of

• checks and balances
• a social contract
• absolute monarchy
• feudalism

How did the philosophies of the Enlightenment influence people to want revolution?

• people wanted to learn more about science
• people wanted greater religious toleration
• people favored an absolute monarchy
• they began to question the current system

What did John Locke say that people could do to a government that did not protect their natural rights?

• write s formal letter of complaint
• overthrow it
• just deal with it
• vote for a new king

In a state of nature

• there are no rules and people can do anything they want

• natural rights are guaranteed

• a strong government exists

• environmental laws are important