Learning Target 8B

Inspired the Scientific Revolution's challenge of traditional theological authority, the _____________________ focused on human reason to improve society.

• Age of Enlightenment
• Age of Revolution

Philosopher ________________ believed people are naturally evil, in order to maintain social order they willingly engaged in a contract with their sovereign.

• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke

_________________ believed people had the natural right to life, liberty, and ownership and the government must protect these rights.

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau

Due to censorship from the monarchy, philosophes met in Enlightenment salons and publications like ___________________ spread Enlightenment philosophies,

• Diderot's Encyclopedia
• Hobbes's Leviathan

_______________________ believed the people engaged in a social contract with their government that was determined by the general will or popular sovereignty.

• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• William Jefferson Clinton

Jean Jacques Rousseau believed the people engaged in a social contract with their government that was determined by the general will or __________________________.

• popular sovereignty
• checks and balances

______________________________ believed effective government required three branches of government with a separation of powers and a system of checks and balances to prevent absolutism.

• Baron de Montesquieu
• Lord Henry Stanley

Baron de Montesquieu believed effective government required three branches of government with a _________________________ and a system of checks and balances to prevent absolutism.

• separation of powers
• separation of state

Baron de Montesquieu believed effective government required three branches of government with a separation of powers and a system of ______________________ to prevent absolutism.

• checks and balances
• popular sovereignty

French satirist _________________ practiced the right of free speech and attacked the ineffectiveness of the government.

• Voltaire
• Moliere