Enlightenment

The Age of Enlightenment began

• Before Exploration
• During Prehistoric Times
• After the American Revolution
• In the 17th Century

Enlightened thinkers based their philosophical beliefs on what two things?

• power and privilege
• money and fame
• good looks and charm
• reason and logic

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Whose authority was challenged by the new scientific theories during the 16th and 17th centuries? 

• English monarchs
• The President of the United States
• The Catholic Church
• Silk Road merchants

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people had natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosopher who believed people were born good, but society corrupted them.  

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

Enlightenment philosophers believe that if government abuses power the people should change it.

• True
• False

What is another name for the Enlightenment?

• The Age of Reason
• The Age of Great Philosophers
• The Age of Religion
• The Age of Revolution

A common theme among Enlightenment thinkers was

• a desire to improve society

• faith in traditional religious beliefs

• support for democratic forms of government

• a belief in the inherent goodness of humanity

Enlightenment thinkers and theories inspired

• the French Revolution

• the American Revolution

• other revolutions of the 1800s

• all of the above

You are born with _________________ that can't be taken away; life, liberty, property

• philosophe

• natural rights

• separation of power

• checks and balances