Revolutions and Enlightenment

Which Enlightenment thinker had the concept that all men have natural rights (life, liberty, property)? This thinker also inspired the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Charles Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Why did many European intellectuals admire the U.S Revolution and its Constitution and Bill of Rights

• The colonies' ideas came from the ideals of natural rights proposed in the Enlightenment

• Europeans were the ancestors of the people who went to North America to found the colonies

• The U.S Constitution was based on the constitutions of successful European countries

• All of Europe wanted to be able to win a war as easily as the colonists' had

"No ________ without representation"

• voting
• taxation
• rights
• liberty poles

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

• George Washington

• Sam Adams

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

Select all of the branches of the Federal Government.

• Judicial Branch

• Legislative Branch

• Federal Branch

• Executive Branch