The Enlightenment ESL

The Enlightenment is a new way _________________ in Europe.

• Making Laws

• Ruling a Country

• Thinking

• Drawing

Before the enlightenment many European nations believed in _____________.

• Democracy

• Theocracy

• Monarchy

• Anarchy

What Enlightenment thinker thought of the idea of “Rights of the Accused?”

• Cesare Beccaria

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

Mary Wollstonecraft focused on what Enlightenment idea?

• Central Government

• Gender Equality

• Natural Rights

• Freedom of Speech

Our Natural Rights are...

• Life, food, and money

• Life, food, and church

• Life, Property, and Church

• Life, Liberty, and Property

The Definition of Rationalism is…

• Thinking, understanding, and making judgments using logic

• Humans and their accomplishments and rights are important

• Belief that the king has the right to rules over others by God

• Using reason to understand and improve the world

What was Thomas Hobbes enlightenment idea?

• Natural Rights

• Central Government

• Gender Equality

• Separation of Powers

Voltaire focused on two enlightenment ideas, what were they?

• Gender Equality and Freedom of Speech

• Freedom of Speech and Separation of Powers

• Freedom of Speech and Central Government

• Freedom of Speech and Separation of Church and State

The definition of reason is: short answer

The Definition of the Enlightenment is: short answer