Enlightenment Quiz

Believed in the freedom of speech and religion

• Voltaire

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rosseau

Wrote in the Social Contract that government serves the will of the people and should be replaced if they aren't doing their job.

• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes
• Karl Marx

Maintained that monarchs were needed to maintain law and order

• John Locke

• Voltaire

• Thomas Hobbes

• Cesare Beccaria

Argued governments should be 3 separate branches to prevent corruption.

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rosseau

• Baron de Montesquieu

Stated that a punishment should fit the crime and people should be free from cruel and unusual punishment.

• Cesare Beccaria

• Jean-Jacques Rosseau

• Baron de Monstesquieu

• Voltaire

Stated that each person has the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• John Locke

• Jean-Jacques Rosseau

• Voltaire

Social gathering in which people discuss ideas

• limited government

• natural rights

• majority rule

• salon

Was angered at the inequalities between the genders and advocated for equal rights and education for all women.

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Voltaire

• Cesare Beccaria

• Thomas Hobbes

Period in which people valued the use of reason as a guide to improving society and politics

• popular sovereignty

• Enlightenment

• unlimited government

• majority rule

Where one person or group holds all the power

• popular sovereignty

• limited government

• unlimited government

• majority rule