8th Grade

Moral and/or Political Obligations based on an agreement on a particular society is called

• Social Contact

• The State of Nature

True or False: Rational thought and reasoning was a major contribution to the Great Awakening

• True

• False

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

Enlightenment philosphers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

Natural Rights

• Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.
• Life, Liberty, and Property
• Freedom
• Rights to say what we want, when we want to.

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

What did Thomas Hobbes believe?

• Humans should hurt other humans
• Humans were naturally cruel, selfish, and greedy
• Humans are all so kind and wonderful
• Humans should go to church every day

What is the purpose of the Declaration of Independence?

• declared the King should rule over the colonies

• to state the 13 English colonies wanted to be their own country (the United States) and why

• showed the colonies did not want independence

• England wanted to break up with the colonies

The Declaration of Independence lists rights the people should have.

• True

• False