World History Unit 4: Enlightenment and Revolutions

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

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

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

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

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

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

How are the Renaissance and the Enlightenment similar?

• produced major cultural changes

• limited technological advancements

• encouraged traditional values

• ignored individual achievements

What did Louis XIV order to be built which put France in a period of deep debt?

• A coliseum

• the Palace at Versailles

• The Eiffel Tower

• The largest Army in the world