Enlightenment Review

People are born as blank slates. People have certain natural rights (life, liberty, and property) and can overthrow an unfair government. Think: Declaration of Independence

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Criticized absolute monarchy. Separation of powers into executive, judicial, and legislative branches. Checks and Balances

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

fought for freedom of speech and opposed religious intolerance and corruption in government

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

Social Contract. People are born good but corrupted by society. Limited and freely elected government

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

What book did Jean-Jacques Rousseau write?

• The Social Contract

• The Leviathan

• Two Treatises on Government

• The Spirit of Laws

Who wanted three branches of government to ensure checks & balances?

• Montesquieu

• Locke

• Jefferson

• Hobbes

Who wanted separation of church and state?

• Voltaire

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Montesquieu

What reflects the correct sequence of steps used in the scientific process?

• observation, question, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion

• question, experimentation, hypothesis, observation, conclusion

• question, observation, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion

• observation, question, experimentation, hypothesis, conclusion

The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was first proposed by?

• Isaac Newton

• Galileo Galilei

• Nicolaus Copernicus

• Francis Bacon

What was Newton’s law of universal gravitation?

• All physical objects are affected equally by the same force.

• The earth and other planets revolve around the sun.

• A falling object accelerates at a fixed and predictable rate.

• The physical world consists of four elements--earth, air, fire, and water.