Enlightenment

British writer who argued that women should have the same rights as men.

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

A period known as the Age of Reason

Proposed the idea of separation of powers

• Montesquieu
• Einstein
• John Locke

• Voltaire

Spoke out against censorship

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Mary Wollstonecraft

Included life, liberty, and property in Locke's view

• Censorship

• English Bill of Rights

• Magna Carta

• Natural Rights

Spoke out against divine right and heavily supported natural rights

• Isaac Newton

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Mary Wollstonecraft

The three goals Enlightenment thinkers believed they could use reason to accomplish were knowledge, freedom, and ____________.

Two important leaders in the American colonies were....

• John Adams and Alexander Hamilton
• Abraham Lincoln and Benjamin Franklin
• John Locke & Adam Smith

• Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson

What basic ideas are found in both the Magna Carta and the English Bill of Rights?

• Said that the government should serve the people

• The freedom of speech and the press with the responsibility to protect the public

• Both included the idea of natural law that governed how the world operated

• The limit of a ruler's power and the recognition of some rights for people

How were Montesquieu's ideas reflected in the U.S. Constitution?

• Within the government there is separation of powers and the three branches of government.

• Citizens have the right of censorship.

• Citizens are granted the right to life, liberty, and property.