The Age of Enlightenment

John Locke's central political value was

• A) the protection of individual rights

• B) designing governments around biblical teachings
• C) ensuring an equal distribution of wealth
• D) the empowerment of the majority of people

A common theme among Enlightenment thinkers was

• A) a desire to improve society
• B) faith in traditional religious beliefs
• C) support for democratic forms of government
• D) a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

• A. government
• B. economics
• C. politics
• D. reason

___________________ believed that without absolute government, people would fight each other all the time.

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

Americans used _________________'s idea of separation of powers to write the US Constitution. 

• A. Montesquieu
• B. Hobbes
• C. Rousseau
• D. Voltaire

Enlightenment thinkers and theories inspired

• A. the French Revolution
• B. the American Revolution
• C. other revolutions of the 1800s
• D. all of the above

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

• A. army
• B. power
• C. people
• D. science

John Locke believed in what three natural rights?

• Life, Liberty, & Property

• Life, Equality, & Happiness

• Liberty, Equality, & Fraternite

• Live Free, Die Hard

______________________ believed in religious freedom and tolerance, and an end to oppression.

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

According to Rousseau, what is the role of government?

• It is to dictate to the people what the government wants.
• It is to implement policies beneficial to the government.
• It is to steer away from popular sovereignty.
• It is to protect the "general will" of the people/to act in the people's best interest