Age of Revolutions

Which statement would Enlightenment thinkers agree with?

• Government exists to serve the peole

• Government should serve the church

• Government must be ruled by a king

• Government shouldn't exist at all

What is Rousseau's idea for a society in which people enter into an agreement with goverment?

• Social Network

• Natural Laws

• Common Sense

• Social Contract

This person believed that humans are basically beasts, and need government to keep law & order.

• John Locke

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

This person argued for freedom of speech and religion, and the separation of church and state.

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Rousseau

• John Locke

Who said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it."?

• Montesquieu

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• King Louis XIV

"I believed that women should be educated and work in the same jobs as men..."

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Mary Wollstonecraft

Who said: "All people have the natural rights, including life, liberty and property."

• Locke

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Wollstonecraft

Laissez faire is when the government operates with

• little regulation

• tariffs

• mercantilism

• a lot of trade regulation

Vocab word meaning restricting access to ideas and information

• salon

• baroque

• censorship

• rococo

The Social Contract Theory

• Sought to guarantee liberty by dividing the powers of government

• Led to the growth of new Protestant denominations (groups) in the mid-1700s

• Questioned the authority of any church to persecute those who did not accept its teachings

• Held that if a government did not protect the citizens & their rights, then citizens were justified in rebelling