Enlightenment and Revolution

Time period in Europe during the 17th & 18th Centuries when Philosophers began applying the concept of reason to the political environment and challenged absolutism (unlimited government).

• Scientific Revolution

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Middle Ages

Which enlightenment thinker wrote about natural rights?

• Thomas Jefferson
• Thomas Hobbes
• John Locke
• Thomas Paine

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

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolute Monarchy

• Democracy

• Dictatorship

The concept that people have to agree to be governed. If the government fails to protect their rights, people can revolt and abolish the government.

• Separation of powers

• Freedom of speech

• Freedom of religion

• Social Contract

This Enlightenment thinker believed in freedom of speech

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Machiavelli

• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

The original goal of both the American and French Revolution was to....

• To produce more food

• To get rid of the monarchy rule

• To create a new religion

• To allow the people to become aristocrats

One of the first radical moves of the Reign of Terror was sending King Louis XVI to what?

• The Electric Chair

• The Guillotine

• The Firing Squad

• Drown