Enlightenment Thinkers & Revolution

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

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Rousseau
• Beccaria

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

• Rousseau
• Beccaria
• Wollstonecraft
• Locke

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

• Montesquieu

• Rousseau

• Hobbes

• Voltaire

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

• Voltaire
• Rousseau
• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes

Famous economists, defender of free-markets, author of The Wealth of Nations.

• Adam Smith

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Thomas Hobbes

What did Isaac Newton discover when the apple supposedly fell on his head?

• Gravity

• Electricty

• Hydrogen

• Plasma

How did Francis Bacon contribute to the scientific Revolution?

• He made the telescope

• He started Humanism

• He made the Scientific Method

• He made the three laws of motion

Who was a major author of the Constitution?

• George Washington

• James Madison

• Thomas Jefferson

• Alexander Hamilton

According to the Declaration of Independence, what truth was "self-evident"?

• All men are created equal
• Rights are given by good kings
• Government exists to protect us from ourselves
• Only a democracy can protect our rights

Who was the main author of the Declaration of Independence?

• Benjamin Franklin
• Samuel Adams
• Thomas Jefferson
• Paul Revere