Age of Enlightenment

Which item from the English Bill of Rights also can be found in our first amendment of the United States Constitution?

• Absolute monarchy

• Freedom of speech

• The army can be used to police the people

• Limited monarchy

Which of the following contributed to the Enlightenment beginning?

• The Protestant Reformation

• The Renaissance

• The Age of Exploration

• All of the above

An agreement between people and the government to give up some rights for safety and protection.

• Philosophers

• Democracy

• Social Contract

• Divine Right of Kings

The enlightenment is

• a time of rebirth

• a time when science ruled

• a time with people used reason and logic to explain the world

• a time when technology ruled

Which Enlightenment philosopher argued that people have the right to abolish their government and create a new one?

• Montesquire

• Voltaire

• Locke

• Rousseau

According to Rousseau, what is the role of government?

• It is to dictate to the people what the government wants.

• It is to implement policies beneficial to the government.

• It is to steer away from popular sovereignty.

• It is to protect the "general will" of the people and act in their interest

______________________ believed in religious freedom and tolerance, and an end to oppression.

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

John Locke believed in what three natural rights?

• Life, Liberty, & Property

• Life, Equality, & Happiness

• Liberty, Equality, & Fraternite

• Live Free, Die Hard

Locke believed that a government's power came from its ___________________.

• army

• power

• people

• science

Napoleon lost a major battle to Great Britain in the Battle of Trafalgar.

• True

• False