Enlightenment Thinkers

What was the main conflict during the Enlightenment?

• Political reform

• Religious wars

• dvocates of new ideas versus political and religious establishments

• Economic disparity

What was the Enlightenment?

• A religious movement

• An international movement in ideas and sensibilities

• A political uprising

• A scientific experiment

Which best summarizes “Enlightenment Thinking”?

• These thinkers believed that they could not change their fate.

• These thinkers believed that through the power of reason, human society could be understood, improved, and perhaps even perfected.

• These thinkers were mostly concerned with their immediate survival and devotion to God.

Enlightenment thinkers believed freedom and democracy were rights of all people which lead to the American Revolutionary War.

• True

• False

During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in ___.

• the church

• the military

• reason

• science

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness

• Natural Rights

• Democracy

• Anarchy

• Divine Right of Kings

What era most inspired people in the Enlightenment to apply reason to society and government?

• The Protestant Reformation

• The Age of Exploration

• The Scientific Revolution

• The Renaissance

The Enlightenment?

• was based upon the assumption that science and reason can explain all things.

• rejected the claims of modern science

• was widely attacked by the royalty and nobility of Europe

• regarded human progress as an impossibility "in this best of all possible worlds"

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation

• Glorious Revolution

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution.

Why was it called ''the age of reason''?

• Because it was an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized reason over superstitions and science over blind faith.

• Because it was an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized superstitions over reason and blind faith over science.

• Because it was an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized season over superstitions and science over blind faith.

• Because it was an intellectual and cultural movement that emphasized treason over superstitions and science over blind faith.