Enlightenment Thinkers

Which enlightenment thinker believed that a government is needed to keep order?

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Beccaria

Who believed in a social contract between the people and the government in which people gave up some freedom in order to have their rights protected?

• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes

Who believed the government should protect a person's three natural rights: life, liberty, and property?

• Rousseau
• Beccaria
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke

Who believed that women's education should be the same as men's?

• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke
• Hobbes

Beccaria did not support ____________.

• education
• establishment of government
• capital punishment
• laws to control social order

Who believed in a separation of powers as a way to provide checks and balances?

• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Hobbes
• Voltaire

Thomas Hobbes believed that all humans are _______________.

• pure and innocent
• selfish and wicked

Who believed that a person's punishment should match the seriousness of the crime?

• Wollstonecraft
• Rousseau
• Locke
• Beccaria

Who believed there should be a separation of church and state?

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes

The beliefs of the enlightenment thinkers led to a revolution in France in __________.

• 1689
• 1789
• 1725
• 1559