Age of Enlightenment Formative Review

A movement of the late 1600s and early 1700s characterized by the belief in the power of human reason and by new ideas in political, religious, and educational areas.

• Illumination

• Logic

• Enlightenment

• Frustration

It applies to everyone and could be understood through reason.

• Natural Law

• Natural Gas

• Natural Views

• Natural Reason

Rights belonging to all humans from birth.

• Natural Liberties

• Natural Rights

• Natural Law

• Natural Happiness

An agreement between citizens and ruler that protects the rights of the people.

• Social Rights

• Social Law

• Social Contract

• Social Studies

A document created by Thomas Jefferson that used Enlightenment ideas to separate from the colonies from England (Great Britain)

• Magna Carta

• US Constitution

• US Declaration of Independence

• Peace Treaty of Versailles

Division of power among the branches of government.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Civic Virtue

• Social Contract

This theory allows the branches of government to limit and control each other’s power.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Civic Virtue

• Social Contract

This theory believes that every citizen has natural laws or duties that they must follow.

• Separation of Powers

• Checks and Balances

• Civic Virtue

• Social Contract

Enlightenment thinker that believed in Natural Rights, such as life, liberty and property. Believed government should have a social contract to protect natural rights. Inspired English Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montequieu

• Voltaire

Enlightenment Thinker believed role of government to protect the “general will” of the people. Believed in the idea of majority rule. Government gets their power through what the people want.

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Baron de Montequieu

• Voltaire