Enlightenment and Road to Revolution

What was the Enlightenment Era?

• A time period where people started rebelling against monarchs

• A time period where people began focusing on logic, reason, and how governments should work

• A time period where people began making art and music we hear today

• A time period where electricity was used to light up homes

Which Enlightenment philosopher came up with Separation of Powers into 3 branches of government?

• Hobbes

• Locke

• Jefferson

• Montesquieu

Which Enlightenment philosopher came up with Social Contract?

• John Adams

• Thomas Jefferson

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

The idea that it's the government's job to protect the people's safety and rights. If the government does not, the people have the right to rebel or change the government.

• Separation of Powers

• Due Process

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

What are the 3 branches of government?

• Judicial, Legislative, Senate

• House of Representatives, Executive, Legislative

• Legislative, Executive, Judicial

• Executive, Judicial, Supreme Court

What are natural rights according to John Locke?

• Life, Liberty, and Property

• Freedom of Speech, Right to Bear Arms, and Property

• Life, Liberty, and Freedom

• Rebelling, Liberty, and Proparty

What was the first document in Europe to limit the power of government and the monarch in the year 1215?

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

• Magna Carta

What is the main idea in the Mayflower Compact?

• Independence and Rights

• Self-government by the people

• Freedom of Religion

• Obeying the monarch

Which document first included Freedom of Speech that we eventually use in the U.S. Bill of Rights?

• Magna Carta

• English Bill of Rights

• Mayflower Compact

• Common Sense

In "Common Sense" by Thomas Paine, what did he say was common sense for the colonists?

• Rebel against England and make a new independent country

• Pay taxes to the British, but make sure they get representation in government

• Obeying the government as long as it protects your rights

• Boycott British goods and protest in the streets