Test 1 Review 2: Enlightenment

One contribution that John Locke made to Enlightenment philosophy was the idea that

• absolute monarchies should continue

• the punishment should fit the crime

• individual rights should be denied

• governments should be based on the consent of the people

According to John Locke, the chief role of government was to

• protect natural rights

• fight territorial wars

• ensure the wealth of citizens

• redistribute land

Locke’s Two Treatises of Government, Rousseau’s The Social Contract, and Montesquieu’s The Spirit of the Laws were works written during which time period?

• Middle Ages

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Reformation

The right to life, liberty, and property

• natural rights

• social contract

• natural beauty

• popular sovereignty

This philosopher believed that government power should be divided into three branches.

• Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Beccaria

This philosopher believed in education and jobs for women.

• Locke

• Wollstonecraft

• Montesquieu

• Hobbes

"an enlightened despot who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796"

• Catherine the Great

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• William Wilberforce

• parliament

"a king or queen whose ideas and actions were influenced by the Enlightenment thinkers"

• enlightened despot

• natural rights

• abolitionists

• parliament

"An English writer and philosopher who was an advocate for women’s rights and wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Catherine the Great

• Emily Dickinson

• Elenor Roosevelt

"rights that all people are born with and that John Locke believed the government should protect including the rights to life, liberty, and property; sometimes called “natural laws”

• Natural rights

• social reform

• suffrage

• petition