Enlightenment Ideas

Match the following terms to their definitions.

• Social Contract

• Rights everyone is born with and cannot be taken away

• State of Nature

• Freedoms, powers, or privileges you are able to have or do that are protected

• Rights

• What life would be like without rules or government

• Natural Rights

• Agreement between the government and the people

​ (a)   believed that in the ​ (b)   , there would be no government, no rules, and no way to protect your ​ (c)   .

• John Locke
• State of Nature
• natural rights
• Social Contract
• Rights
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire

​ (a)   believed that in the ​ (b)   , everyone has a right to everything and there would be constant ​ (c)   . Due to this, no one would ​ make anything.

• John Locke
• State of Nature
• Social Contract
• Rights
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Voltaire
• Natural Rights
• war
• peace

​ (a)   believed that in the ​ (b)   , everyone is naturally ​ (c)   when they're being themselves. It's society and the ​ (d)   that make people make ​ (e)   decisions.

• John Locke
• State of Nature
• Social Contract
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes
• Voltaire
• Natural Rights
• good
• bad
• rules

Thomas Hobbes believes that people are naturally...

• Selfish and cruel

• Concerned about others and peaceful

• Indifferent and minds their own business

• Cooperative and pleasant

Match the purpose of government to their appropriate thinker:

• Thomas Hobbes

• Protect the people

• John Locke

• Protect liberty and security

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Protect your natural rights

Which of the following are natural rights according to John Locke?

• Life

• Liberty

• Property

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Healthcare

​ John Locke believed that in a ​ (a)   , the people give up some freedoms and rights in exchange for ​ (b)   . However, if the government doesn't protect their ​ (c)   , then the people can​ (d)   .

• social contract
• the protection of their natural rights
• natural rights
• change the government
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• protection
• lives
• do nothing

​ Thomas Hobbes believed that in a ​ (a)   , the people give up some freedoms and rights in exchange for ​ (b)   . However, if the government doesn't protect their ​ (c)   , then the people can​ (d)   .

• John Locke
• social contract
• the protection of their natural rights
• natural rights
• change the government
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• protection
• lives
• do nothing

​ (a)   believed that the ​ (b)   is when everyone is ​ (c)   to make ​ (d)   that are ​ (e)   for everyone.

• John Locke
• general will
• tolerant
• lives
• respectful of the beliefs
• Thomas Hobbes
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• working together
• decisions
• good and fair