WorksheetsThe Enlightenment: Influencers
Total questions: 22
Worksheet time: 13mins
Time period in Europe during the 17th & 18th Centuries when Philosophers began applying the concept of reason to the political environment and challenged absolutism (unlimited government).
Scientific Revolution
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Middle Ages
An Unlimited Government where the king or queen have unlimited power
Constitutional Monarchy
Absolute Monarchy
Democracy
Dictatorship
Philosopher who believed in natural rights and a social contract in order to have government. Believed the job of government was to protect peoples’ natural rights.
Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Voltaire
Locke's natural rights. Everyone is born with these.
Life, liberty, property
Life, liberty, pursuit of happiness
money, cars, houses
work, religion, freedom
The concept that people have to agree to be governed. If the government fails to protect their rights, people can revolt and abolish the government.
Separation of powers
Freedom of speech
Freedom of religion
Social Contract
Philosopher who believed that government should have separation of powers and checks and balances.
Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
Voltaire
Dividing power between different branches. Each branch as a separate job, and no one branch becomes too powerful.
Freedom of Religion
Popular Soverignty
Separation of powers
Capitalism
The ability of branches of government to limit the power of other branches.
Capitalism
Separation of Church and State
Freedom of Religion
Checks and Balances
The belief that the government should not support one religion over any other. Increases the freedom of religion.
Separation of Church and state
Checks and balances
Natural rights
Capitalism
Enlightened thinkers believed that _____ could lead them to the truth.
feeling
reason
experiments
government
Which is NOT a goal of enlightened thinkers during the Age of Reason?
They wanted people to remain uneducated and let the government do the thinking for them.
They wanted to improve the way people lived.
They wanted people to think clearly and logically without letting their feelings guide them.
They wanted to use scientific reasoning to examine every part of society.
Thinking in a logical way is ____.
reason
ignorance
virtue
liberty
Consent of the Governed means that government can only get their power from _____________.
God
The King
The People
Parliament
Thomas Hobbes believed that people were...
Good and Educated
capable of creating a national government
Evil and Selfish
self sufficient and able to create a good government
Why did Thomas Hobbes think that people needed an Absolute Monarch to rule theme?
He believed people cared too much about their money.
He believed people were smart and creative.
He believed that people were not educated enough to make good decisions for their country.
How do we see Montesquieu ideas in our government nowadays?
Our government has absolute power.
We do not see Montesquieu influence in todays government in the USA.
The people of our country have no control over the decisions of the government.
Our government is separated in three branches.
Montesquieu believed that the power of a government should be divided into 3...
Government offices.
Branches: Legislative, Executive and Judicial.
Departments.
Governments powers all separate and independent from one another.
French Enlightenment philosopher who strongly believed in freedom of speech and religion
Voltaire
Denis Diderot
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke
Who believed that the church and state should be separate?
Mary Wollstonecraft
Rousseau
Hobbes
Voltaire
How did John Locke contribute to the Enlightenment?
He stressed the importance of natural rights emphasizing the right to life, liberty and ownership.
He stressed the importance of separation of powers and keeping politics and religion separate but equal.
He stressed the importance of a strong world leader who could unify all mankind under the principles of the Enlightenment.
How did the Enlightenment CHANGE the way of thinking?
The intellectual movement stressed the power of reason and the individual to change society and government.
The intellectual movement wanted a compromise with the Roman Catholic Church.
The intellectual movement emphasized the growth of royal societies to maintain social order.
In Rousseau's The Social Contract, he expressed his belief that
a child was a small adult with all the same abilities and obligations.
the individual's will is the most important.
government was necessary to protect the rights of its citizens, but may be overthrown.
government was an evil that should be totally eliminated.
