Enlightenment Thinkers

Who believed in and fought for gender equality?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

Which of the following were John Locke's ideas?

• Natural rights and tabula rasa

• Separation of powers

• Gender equality

• Religious freedom

Who believed people were inherently bad and there should be a powerful central government?

• Thomas Paine

• Adam Smith

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Thomas Hobbes

Which of the following was Thomas Paine's belief or goal?

• Create a free market with no government involvement

• Develop and encyclopedia

• Create a government that is absolutely powerful

• Persuade Americans to break free from England

Who developed the encyclopedia?

• Denis Diderot

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

• Thomas Hobbes

Which idea did Baron de Montesquieu develop or create?

• Encyclopedia

• Religious freedom

• Gender equality

• Separation of powers

Who developed the ideas of inherent natural rights and the tabula rasa (people are born a blank slate)?

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

What was Jean Jacques Rousseau's main idea?

• Government should work for the common good of the people

• Government should not be involved in the economy

• People are born a blank slate, or "tabula rasa"

• People should have religious freedom

Who wrote about religious freedom?

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Adam Smith

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

What was Mary Wollstonecraft's main idea or philosophy?

• Gender equality

• Religious freedom

• America should break away from England

• Separation of powers