Enlightenment/Sci Rev

Locke argued that we had 3 main natural rights. What are they? (Select 3)

• Life

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property

Which American Founding Father did John Locke influence the most?

• Ben Franklin

• George Washington

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

People give up some portion of their freedom in exchange for ____, according to Thomas Hobbes.

• legitimacy

• security

• oligarchy

• better schools

Rousseau created the idea of the ______ contract.

• social
• legal

• military

• royal

According to Montesquieu, what is the main purpose of government?

• to maintain law and order, political liberty, and the property of the individual

• to build a wall

• to create laws that everyone agree on

• to open Chic Fil A on Sundays

The power of the human mind to think and understand in a logical way

• reason

• philosophies

• natural rights

• contract

A right, such as life and liberty, that a person is born wth

• divine right

• philosophes

• natural rights

• contract

Enlightenment thinker who was a pioneer for women's rights and education.

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

A direct result of the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment was that people studied the concept of natural laws. The Enlightenment focused on how natural laws impacted which aspect of society?

• Medicine

• Religion

• Mathematics

• Government

Which statement would an Enlightenment thinker most likely agree?

• Governments should function using the power of human reason

• Most governmental leaders consider human rights when making laws

• The universe has the earth at its center