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WorksheetsWorld - Enlightenment Vocab
Total questions: 16
Worksheet time: 10mins
The book written by Rousseau that detailed how government should only be created by a mutual agreement between the people and a break in the agreement could lead to the creation of a new government.
The Social Contract
Two Treatises of Government
Leviathan
Declaration of the Rights of Man
The system popularized by Montesquieu that involved the division of government power in order to prevent an abuse of power.
The Separation of Powers
Natural Rights
Social Contract
Enlightenment
The political philosopher who argued that tyranny would exist unless there was a separation of powers in government.
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rousseau
John Locke
John Locke’s phrase represents what he believed all people are born with and should be protected by the government.
Natural Rights
A College Savings Account
Health Care
A Social Contract
The political philosopher who believed man was good by nature, right to life, liberty, property, and believed revolution can be justified if rulers neglect to serve the people.
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Montesquieu
Voltaire
The intellectual revolution of the 16th-18th centuries that was inspired by scientific reasoning and experimentation.
The Enlightenment
The Scientific Revolution
The Renaissance
The Great Awakening
The Swiss political philosopher who believed government put people in chains, but if government must exist it should be at a very basic level for the protection of the people; he wrote about this in his book, The Social Contract.
Voltaire
Rousseau
John Locke
Montesquieu
The political philosopher who believed man was wicked by nature and needed an absolute monarch to govern him, writing about this in his book The Leviathan.
Voltaire
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Creed Bratton
The document that stated the American colonies are now independent from the British government.
The Declaration of Independence
The US Constitution
The Magna Carta
The Bill of Rights
The political and social philosopher of France who was repeatedly punished for criticizing the corruption of the French government, aristocracy, and church.
Voltaire
Rousseau
Montesquieu
Locke
From the list below, who did NOT support the idea of a Heliocentric (sun centered) Universe?
Aristotle
Johannes Kepler
Nicolas Copernicus
Galileo Galilei
Which incorrectly matches a scientist to an achievement/discovery?
Galileo- Better Telescope
Copernicus- Heliocentric Theory
Isaac Newton- Gravity
Francis Bacon- Gravity
What is the relationship between the Enlightenment and the American Revolutionary War?
Government served to protect the rights of its people.
Natural rights and social contract moved from theory to practice.
Religious feelings were more important than religious behavior.
Both of these events happened independently and had nothing to do with each other.
Which statement by the English philosopher John Locke is echoed in the Declaration of Independence?
Government has no other job than the preservation of property.
Wherever law ends, tyranny begins.
We are utterly incapable of universal and certain Knowledge.
A government that abuses its citizens will be overthrown
Which is NOT a similarity/connection between the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment?
Challenged the Roman Catholic Church
Challenged traditional authorities
Opposed a belief in God
Fed off of Renaissance academics
Place the following events in chronological order.
1.Renaissance
2.Enlightenment
3.Scientific Revolution
1-3-2
3-2-1
1-2-3
2-3-1
