Enlightenment Thinkers

This Philosophe believed that all people are born evil and wicked.

• John Locke

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Denis Diderot

• Thomas Hobbes

This philosophe believed in splitting the government into three branches. Legislative, Executive, and Judicial

• Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Jean Jacques Rousseau

• Voltaire

Equal education for girls & boys is the only way women can participate equally with men.

• John Locke

• Susan B. Anthony

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Rousseau

John Locke believed that people are born with natural rights such as (check all that apply)

• Life

• Medicine

• Liberty

• Pursuit of Happiness

• Property

Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that people should agree with the government to give up some freedoms for the common good. What is this mutual agreement called?

• Social Contract

• The Handshake Agreement

• Magna Carta

• The Declaration of Independence

This philosophe believed in religious freedoms. He was also banished from France and his writings were censored by the King.

• John Locke

• George Washington

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

This philosophe wrote a 28-vol. Encyclopedia which included articles by leading "thinkers"

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• Denis Diderot

• Montesquieu

The French Doctrine that means, "to let people do what they want".

• The Constitution

• Laissez-faire

• The Guillotine

• Magna Carta

The Enlightenment began in this country.

• England

• The United States

• Germany

• France

These were elegant drawing rooms where wealthy upper class aristocrats discussed ideas with the middle class.

• Pubs

• Court Houses

• Salons

• Taverns