Enlightenment Quiz

What was one enlightenment idea that implemented into the US Government

• The idea of natural rights

• Separation of powers

• Speedy and Fair Trial

• All of the other answers

Popular sovereignty is when

• governments power comes from the people

• governments power comes from God

• people are elected by the people

• elected officials make decisions

Social Contract

• the idea that we give up freedoms to live in a civil society

• Separation of powers

• Laissez-fair

• the Invisible hand

Which philosopher came up with the idea of three branches of government

• Montesque

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft

• Hobbes

Which philosopher came up with the idea that people are selfish and that government is necessary to maintain a free and just society.

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesque

• Voltaire

The Right to LIfe, Liberty and Property is assoicated with which philosopher?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• John Locke

The Enlightenment was an attempt to reshape European?

• Religion

• Politics

• Economics

• Trade

Enlightenment philosopher who believed men and women should be equal

• Voltaire
• Denis Diderot
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Adam Smith

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people were born good, but society corrupted them.  

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

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

• True
• False