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WorksheetsThe Enlightenment
Total questions: 18
Worksheet time: 14mins
What philosopher was associated with "Checks and Balances" during the Enlightenment?
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
What philosopher was associated with "Natural Rights " during the Enlightenment?
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
What philosopher was associated with "Social Contract " during the Enlightenment?
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
What philosopher was associated with "Freedom of Speech " during the Enlightenment?
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
What philosopher wrote that "government should work for the benefit of the common goods and people should give up their rights:, during the Enlightenment?
Baron de Montesquieu
Voltaire
John Locke
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Which philosopher believed that women should have the same rights as men?
John Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Voltaire
Mary Wollstonecraft
Belief that, by using the power of reason, humans could arrive at the truth and improve human life.
Relativism
Deism
Rationalism
Individualism
The intellectuals of the Enlightenment were called-
Sophists
Philosophes
Heretics
Enlightened Ones
Under the idea of the "consent of the governed," what happens if government fails to protect the peoples' rights?
Nothing, people must obey the government
The people would have a right to revolt
The people would be returned to a state of nature
People would be forced to enter into a social contract
Who argued that women should be given an education, to be virtuous and useful:
Rousseau
Voltaire
Wollstonecraft
Bacon
no answer
The Enlightenment encouraged women to take a stronger role in society by
allowing women to become rulers of their countries.
giving them jobs in factories.
organizing salons in their homes where people could speak freely.
by giving natural rights to every citizen including women and children.
Locke argued that we had 3 main natural rights. What are they? (Select 3)
Life
Liberty
Pursuit of Happiness
Property
According to John Locke, if the government didn't protect the people's natural rights, what could the people do?
Overthrow the government
Petition the government for their rights
Nothing, the people don't have rights
What is the type of government where you choose for someone to make decisions for you?
Direct Democracy
Democracy
Representative Democracy
Dictatorship
Which system of government is defined as when elected officials make decisions for the benefit of the people.
Absolute Monarchy
Direct Democracy
Representative Democracy
