Age of Reason/Enlightenment

We call this era the "Age of Reason" because people began to apply __________ to society and government.

• Logic

• Tyranny

• Tradition

• Religion

What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

• natural right

• natural law

• social contract

• divine right

Laissez faire is when the government operates with

• little trade regulation

• tariffs

• mercantilism

• a lot of trade regulation

Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

• wrote fiction

• challenged the old order

• supported traditional ideas

• wrote in salons

The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Diderot

What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights (life, liberty, and property) of the people?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• René Descartes

• John Locke

Influential opponents of the Enlightenment included

• enlightened despots

• the American and French colonies

• church authorities

• Defoe and Hayden

According to Thomas Hobbes, the best form of government is

• a federal republic.

• a theocracy.

• absolute monarchy.

• a democracy.

What is another name for Enlightenment?

• Age of Reason

• Age of intelligence

• Age of non-religion

• Age of Science

What country reaching the highest development during the Age of Reason?

• Germany

• UK

• France

• America

Answer explanation

Many reasons why they were: 1. France coined the term philosopher

2. they had a unified language in the educated class

3. they were the cultural center of Europe 4. French intellectuals weren't tortured or executed for their works, unlike other writers of Eastern and Central Europe.