Enlightenment

What influence did the Enlightenment thinkers have on the United States?

• They came to America to help fight the British during the Revolutionary War

• They made incredible inventions that revolutionized the way products are manufactured

• They were political thinkers who ideas influenced the creation of government during the formation of the new nation

• They met with Thomas Jefferson to draft the Declaration of Independence

The English philosopher John Locke argued that life, liberty, and property are:

• natural rights

• economic rights

• political rights

• social rights

Enlightenment thinkers challenge the idea of the "divine rights" of kings. These new ideas encouraged people to:

• Engage in revolutions to establish democratic governments

• call for the churches to create theocracies

• remain firm in their support of absolute monarchs

• seek dictators for leaders

Enlightenment thinkers, such as John Locke, believed that:

• religious tolerance is a dangerous concept

• an absolute monarchy is the most effective form of government

• government should protect rights of the people

• civil liberties should be given as rewards for political loyalty

How were the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment similar?

• they both rejected ideas from the Renaissance

• they both led to the Protestant Reformation

• they both strengthened traditional institutions

• they both encouraged a systematic, rational approaches to problem solving

What is the Enlightenment?

• A rebirth of Greek and Roman teachings and learnings that propelled European society towards education and innovation

• A theory that the entire universe revolves around the Earth

• An intellectual movement that stressed reason and logic to answer societal questions in government and society

• A 15th century idea that the Catholic Church had become too powerful and corrupt and that a new faction of Christian religion should be made to remedy this corruption

Thomas Hobbes wrote which of the following that describes people as greedy and selfish, needing an absolute monarch to control them:

• Leviathan

• Candide

• The Social Contract

• The Declaration of Independence

Who made the following quote, "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."

• Locke

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Which thinker coined the idea of a separation of powers within government- Executive, Legislative, Judicial

• Baron De Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Mary Wollstonecraft was passionate about which of the following:

• the the church should be the most powerful institution in government

• that women should not be treated as equals to men

• ensuring that the monarchy remained strong

• that there needs to be educational and social equality for women