The Enlightenment

The Age Enlightenment took place during what centuries?

• 1400s & 1500s.

• 1600s & 1700s

• 1800s & 1900s

• 1100s & 1200s

Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in...

• Protecting the power of Kings

• The role of Church in society

• Changing the relationship between people and government

• Soccer

Which statement would Enlightenment thinkers agree with?

• Government exists to serve the people

• Government should serve the church

• Government must be ruled by a king

• Government shouldn't exist at all

What is Rousseau's idea for a society in which people enter into an agreement with government?

• Social Network

• Natural Laws

• Common Sense

• Social Contract

This person believed that humans are basically beasts, and need government to keep law & order.

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

This person argued for freedom of speech and religion, and the separation of church and state.

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

• John Locke

Who said the following quote: "I believed that women should be educated and work in the same jobs as men.."

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft

Who said: “All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty, and property."

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

Who said: "Without government our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short!"

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

What were the effects of The Enlightenment?

• American Revolution

• French Revolution

• Haitian Revolution

• All of the Above