5.1 Enlightenment

What was the primary focus of the Enlightenment movement in the 18th century?

• Advocating for the divine right of kings.

• Promoting the use of reason to reconsider accepted ideas and social institutions.

• Emphasizing religious revelation as the sole source of truth.

• Encouraging a return to traditional feudal systems.

Which concept, championed by Francis Bacon, suggests that reality is understood primarily through sensory experience?

• Rationalism

• Deism

• Empiricism

• Mercantilism

According to John Locke's concept of the social contract, what is the relationship between human beings and their government?

• Governments are divinely appointed and hold absolute power over the people.

• People willingly surrender some power to a government that protects their natural rights.

• Natural rights are granted by the monarch and can be revoked at will.

• Governments should have a heavy hand in controlling all aspects of society.

_____ _____ argued against a mercantilist approach to a more ______ _____ stance on economics and trade.

• John Locke

• Adam Smith

• laissez-faire

• socialistic fever

How did Deism, a new branch of enlightened religion, view God's involvement in history?

• God actively intervenes in daily human affairs and historical events.

• God created the world and its natural laws but does not intervene thereafter.

• God reveals truth exclusively through religious scriptures and traditions.

• God is a cosmic watchmaker who constantly adjusts the world's mechanisms.

Are women subhuman and "irrational creatures incapable of logical thoughts"?

• No

• Absolutely not

• That's insulting

• Wow.

What did both Mary Wollstonecraft and the Seneca Falls Convention argue?

• Equality of the sexes

• women should be given more opportunities

• women are morally superior

• women shouldn't have husbands

What good came out of the ideas of the Enlightenment?

• Capitalism

• Democracy

• The ideals of Equality

• Abolition of slavery