The Enlightenment

The Enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth
• a time when science ruled
• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world
• a time when technology ruled

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

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

The roots of our system of government date back to

• England
• France
• Russia
• Austria

The most common type of government before the Enlightenment was:

• Absolute Monarchy
• Constitutional Monarchy
• Democracy
• Anarchy

What document did John Locke's ideas influence?

• English Bill of Rights
• Declaration of Independence
• Great Charter
• Magna Carter

What type of document did the Enlightenment thinkers support?

• Totalitarian
• Absolute monarchy
• unlimited government
• limited government

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection

• Philosophers
• Democracy
• Social Contract
• Divine Right of Kings

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights
• Democracy
• Anarchy
• Divine Right of Kings

Which Enlightenment idea is represented by the image?

• separation of powers

• social contract

• checks and balances

• natural law