American Revolution and the Enlightenment

Which Enlightenment thinker had the concept that all men have natural rights (life, liberty, property)? This thinker also inspired the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Charles Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What was the central theme that Enlightenment thinkers were writing about?

• Divine Right Theory

• Debating taxation

• Relationship between people and government

• Increasing the power of the Church

What is the social contract theory?

• People should give up some freedoms so that as a group, everyone is cared for

• People should abstain from following any system of Government

• All men were born equal with natural rights: life, liberty, property

• Government should not be controlled by religion

Of the following enlightenment thinkers, who developed the idea for the social contract?

• Charles Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

• John Locke

Life, liberty, and property are also known as?

• 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

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

• True
• False

What concept below would the Enlightenment philosophers be most likely to agree upon?

• Government should be dictated by the Divine Right Theory

• Citizens should never be involved in how the Government is ran

• People should get to choose how the government controls them

• There should be no separation between Church and Government

The concept that everyone was born a blank slate or, Tabula Rasa, was from what Enlightenment thinker?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Charles Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• John Locke

What was the main reason the American colonists wanted freedom from Great Britain?

• They wanted their own Monarch

• Taxation without representation

• They never wanted to be free from Great Britain, Great Britain wanted rid of the colonies

• Great Britain wanted to end slavery