Enlightenment & Revolutions

Which Enlightenment thinker had the concept that all men have natural rights (life, liberty, property)? This thinker also inspired the ideas in the Declaration of Independence.

• John Locke

• Charles Montesquieu

• Thomas Hobbes

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

What battle ended the American Revolution?

• Battle Lexington

• Battle of Yorktown

• Battle of Bunkerhill

• Battle of Concord

What was the central theme that Enlightenment thinkers were writing about?

• Divine Right Theory

• Debating taxation

• Relationship between people and government

• Increasing the power of the Church

What is the social contract theory?

• People should give up some freedoms so that as a group, everyone is cared for

• People should abstain from following any system of Government

• All men were born equal with natural rights: life, liberty, property

• Government should not be controlled by religion

Of the following enlightenment thinkers, who developed the idea for the social contract?

• Charles Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

• John Locke

Life, liberty, and property are also known as?

• Unalienable Rights

• Essential Rights

• Natural Rights

• Original Rights

Enlightenment philosopher who believed to limit government, that it should be divided into separate branches that shared power.

• John Locke
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau
• Voltaire

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

• True
• False

What concept below would the Enlightenment philosophers be most likely to agree upon?

• Government should be dictated by the Divine Right Theory

• Citizens should never be involved in how the Government is ran

• People should get to choose how the government controls them

• There should be no separation between Church and Government

The concept that everyone was born a blank slate or, Tabula Rasa, was from what Enlightenment thinker?

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Charles Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• John Locke