The Age of Reason (Enlightenment)

Montesquieu used American ideas to write the U.S. Constitution.

• True

• False

Locke believed that a government's power came from its people.

• True

• False

Hobbes believed that without government, people would govern themselves peacefully.

• True

• False

The Enlightenment reached its height in England in the 1600s.

• True

• False

Thinkers of the Age of Reason believed that the divine right of kings was a good idea.

• True

• False

Montesquieu described __________.

• branches of government

• separation of powers

• checks and balances

• all of the above

_____'s idea was the beginning of modern democracy.

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Wollstonecraft

What political event in England had strong effect on Thomas Hobbes and John Locke?

• English Civil War

• American Civil War