Enlightenment Thinkers & Revolution

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Which enlightenment thinker believed that a government is needed to keep order? Options: Voltaire, Hobbes, Rousseau, Beccaria

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Hobbes

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Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

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Locke

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Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

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Montesquieu

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Who believed there should be a separation of church and state? Options: Voltaire, Rousseau, Wollstonecraft, Hobbes

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Voltaire

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Famous economists, defender of free-markets, author of The Wealth of Nations.

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Adam Smith

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What did Isaac Newton discover when the apple supposedly fell on his head?

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Gravity

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How did Francis Bacon contribute to the scientific Revolution?

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He made the Scientific Method

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Who was a major author of the Constitution?

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James Madison

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According to the Declaration of Independence, what truth was "self-evident"?

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All men are created equal

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Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

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Thomas Jefferson