The Enlightenment

French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

The rights of life, liberty, and property are called:

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights

The Enlightenment is a period of time where "faith" is being replaced with what?

• Water

• Reason

• Opinions

• Science

Voltaire also fought for this idea between government and religion?

• Separation of Taxes and Church

• Separation of Church and State

• Separation of Women and Men

• Combination of Religion and Government

What revolutions did the Enlightenment Period influence?

• Russian Revolution/American Revolution

• French Revolution/Russian Revolution

• American Revolution/French Revolution

• Russian Revolution/Bolshevik Revolution

What is the social contract theory?

• People should give up some freedoms so that as a group, everyone is cared for

• People should abstain from following any system of Government

• All men were born equal with natural rights: life, liberty, property

• Government should not be controlled by religion

The concept that everyone was born a blank slate or, Tabula Rasa, was from what Enlightenment thinker?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Charles Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• John Locke

What was the main reason the American colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?

• They wanted their own Monarch

• Taxation without representation

• They never wanted to be free from Great Britain, Great Britain wanted rid of the colonies

• Great Britain wanted to end slavery

Which of the following is NOT a cause of the French Revolution?

• Separation of citizens into distinct classes

• Reign of Terror

• Unequal representation

• Unfair taxation

What was the Reign of Terror

• The event that started the French Revolution

• The event that led to 17,000 French citizens to be killed by the Guillotine

• A mob that stormed the Bastille in Paris, France

• The event that started the American Revolution