Enlightenment

What led to the Enlightenment?

• The American Revolution

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Industrial Revolution

• Abolition

A time in which thinkers emphasized the use of reason to uncover "natural " laws that governed human life. During this time in the 1600s and 1700s, thinkers developed new idea about government and basic human rights. What was this called?

• The Enlightenment

• The Renaissance

• The Reformation

• The Scientific Revolution

Unchanging principles, discovered through reason that govern all human conduct

• social contract

• democracry

• natural laws

• The Constitution

Enlightenment thinkers turned away from absolutism and divine right toward democracy and individual rights.

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• false

Who argued for a powerful government? People were naturally cruel, greedy, and selfish. If not strictly controlled, they would fight, rob, and oppress one another.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

Who focuses on Natural Rights? He was more optimistic and thought people were reasonable and moral. He thought people had certain natural rights; including the right to life, liberty and property.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

rights that belonged to all humans from birth are called

• natural laws

• equal right

• democracy

• natural rights

Who wrote the Two Treaties of Government?

• Thomas Hobbes

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

A French philosopher who calls for Separation of Powers. He felt that the best way to protect liberty was to divide the various functions and powers of government among 3 branches: legislative, executive, and judicial. He also called for checks and balances.

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Who published The Spirit of the Laws?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Locke