Enlightenment Review

A time period in the 1600s in Europe when new ideas and concepts formed, for example, logic, individual rights and the scientific method.

• social contract

• Enlightenment

• self-government

• Revolution

an agreement among people in a society with their government.

• Common Sense

• natural right

• social contract

• separation of powers

A freedom people possess relating to life, liberty and property

• natural right

• social contract

• limited monarchy

• direct democracy

the split of authority among the legislative, executive and judicial branches.

• natural right

• separation of powers

• Common Sense

• self government

basic rights enjoyed by all people; another term for natural rights

• social contract

• self-government

• Enlightenment

• individual liberties

A monarchy that is limited by laws and a constitutin

• limited monarchy

• absolute monarchy

• compact monarchy

• foreign monarchy

a system of government in which people make their own laws

• dictatorship

• autocracy

• self-government

• totalitarianism

What ideas from the Enlightenment thinkers shaped colonists' views about government?

• social contract, natural rights, separation of powers

• absolute power and dictatorship

• I don't know!

• Trick question! The Enlightenment thinkers had no impact on the colonists.

He wrote The Prince and argued that it is safer for a ruler to be feared than loved. He favored republics (republicanism) as the best form of government.

• Niccolo Machiavelli

• Thomas Paine

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

He wrote Two Treatises of Government and believed that all people were born with certain natural rights and that it was the job of government to protect those rights.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean Jacques Rousseau