Enlightenment

John Locke had the idea of natural law, which is also referred to as natural rights. What are these rights?

• to vote

• Life, liberty and property

• freedom of speech and religion

• freedom to bear arms

Montesquieu's idea that political power should be divided into 3 branches - legislative, executive and judicial.

• separation of powers

• federalism

• checks and balances

• self-government

A period in European history that emphasized education and using logic to improve people's lives. Before this, superstition was used to explain the world.

• Enlightenment

• New Age

• Holocaust

• 20th Century

According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?

• Overthrow the government

• Petition the government for their rights

• Nothing, the people don't have rights

Rousseau created the idea of the ______ contract.

• social
• legal

• military

• royal

An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

Philosopher who supported equal education and rights for women

• Wollstonecraft

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Father of economics. His ideas are the basis of Capitalism

• Wollstonecraft

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Smith

Philosophers of the Enlightenment wanted to use __________ in all areas of life.

• A. government
• B. economics
• C. politics
• D. reason

Which Enlightenment thinker believed in abolishing torture?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Cesare Beccaria