Enlightenment Influences

What was the period known as the Enlightenment?

• A time when when light bulbs were invented

• An age of reasoning when people had ideas about government

• The day the Declaration of Independence was signed

Which philosopher believed that the best way to keep government from becoming too powerful is to separate government into 3 branches?

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

• Rousseau

According to Locke, what is a state of nature?

• A strict government and citizens are not given any rights

• Similar to camping outside

• Each state makes their own laws with no federal government

• No laws and no rules no government. Everything is chaotic.

Which document was influenced by Montesquieu's idea of separation of power and checks and balances?

• Declaration of Independence

• The Leviathan

• The US Constitution

• The Art of War

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Locke

• George Washington

• Alexander Hamilton

According to John Locke, what are natural rights?

• Freedom of speech, press, and religion

• Separation of Power

• Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness

• Life, Liberty and Property

According to Locke and Rousseau, a social contract is between.....

• the states and the cities

• the states and the federal government

• the people and the government

• the people and the land owners

Locke had a large influence on ________________ who ended up writing the Declaration of Independence and using Locke's words.

• Thomas Jefferson

• James Madison

• Abraham Lincoln

• George Washington

According to Locke, 3 rights you are born with are __________.

• Life, liberty, property

• Life, happiness, freedom

• Life, liberty, money

• Life, property, happiness

Montesquieu said power MUST be ____________________.

• Separated, checked, balanced

• Watched, listened, heard

• Seen, felt, experienced

• Controlled, checked, watched