WH Ch.3 Less.2 Guided Reading

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The enlightenment was a philosophical movement of intellectuals that were impressed with the achievements of the ______________.

• Ancient civilizations
• Aliens
• Scientific Revolution
• Natural law

John Locke believed that people were born with a tabula rasa, which means ______________.

• limited potential
• blank mind
• unlimited potential

Newton influenced enlightenment thinkers through the discovery of natural laws that explained the physical world.

• True
• False

Intellectuals of the Enlightenment were: (check all that apply)

• writers
• kings
• peasants
• professors
• social reformers

To the philosophes, the role of philosophy was to _________.

• rule the world
• change the world
• gain power

Montesquieu stated that England's government had 3 branches:

• executive, legislative, and judicial
• lawmakers, police, and citizens

Having 3 branches of government creates checks and balances and functions through a ______________________.

• nobility and religious leaders
• separation of powers
• magna carta

Voltaire fought against __________ ___________ in France.

• the monarch
• religious intolerance
• natural laws

Deism is an eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.

• True
• False