Enlightenment Quiz

the use of scientific and logical thinking 

• Enlightenment 
• natural rights 
• social contract 
• reason

an agreement between citizens and their ruler

• separation of powers
• social contract 
• checks and balances 

division of power among branches of government

• checks and balances 
• natural rights 
• separation of powers

protects freedom by keeping any one person or group from gaining too much power.

• natural rights
• social contract 
• checks and balances 
• separation of powers

period of time when “faith” is replaced by “reason.”

• Scientific Revolution
• French Revolution
• Age of Exploration
• Enlightenment 

rights belonging to all human beings.

• inalienable rights 
• sovereign rights
• natural rights 

an educated person who used reason to study life

• psychiatrist 
• philosopher 
• pharmacist 
• pediatrician 

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

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

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

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Religious toleration, separation of church and state, and freedom of speech, who believed in these rights?

• Rousseau
• Locke
• Hobbes
• Voltaire