Enlightenment Review Game

This philosopher separated the government into three branches of government and argued for separation of powers.

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Diederot

Enlightenment thinkers contributed to changes in relationships between citizens and governments through their belief that

• Most changes in government are dangerous

• Absolute monarchy is the most effective form of government

• Governments are instituted to protect citizens’ rights

• Popular liberties should be limited by the need for social order

The willingness of people to hand over their rights to a ruler in exchange for law and order in society was called the

• Scientific Method

• Magna Carta

• Enlightenment

• Social Contract

The major contribution of the Enlightenment philosophers was the introduction of new ideas about

• Government

• Economics

• Religion

• Science

The philosopher who believed that all people are born free and equal, with the rights to life, liberty, and property was

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Galileo

• Montesquieu

Upon whose ideas is our Bill of Rights based?

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

Early proponent of women’s rights

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Wollstonecraft

• Catherine the Great

Thomas Hobbes called the agreement by which people create a government the

• Salon

• Enlightenment

• Check and Balances

• Social Contract

This philosopher studied government and devised the idea of a separation of powers.

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Rousseau

John Locke believed that the government had an obligation to the people it governed to protect their natural rights. If the government failed to do this, then the people had the right to

• Move to another country

• Refuse to vote in the next election

• Overthrow the government

• Continue to be persecuted