Enlightenment Thinkers
Who wrote it?
Where in the world?
Where did they rule?
What Estate would they have been in?
100

He wrote that all people are born with three natural rights: life, liberty, and property

Locke

100

Declaration of Indpendence (primary author)

Jefferson

100
Where the Declaration of Indepdence was signed

Philadelphia

100

Louis XVI

France

100

Jacques, a peasant farmer

Third

200

He wrote that a just political system should contain checks and balances

Montesquieu

200

Two Treatises on Government

Locke

200

The fortress known as the Bastille was found in this French capital

Paris

200

George Washington

USA

200

The Bishop of Touraine

First

300

"I may not agree with what you say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it." Who said it?

Voltaire

300

Leviathan

Hobbes

300

The first shots of the American Revolution were fired here

Lexington

300

Frederick the Great

Prussia

300

The Count of Brittany

Second

400

Who wrote that systems of criminal justice should seek to reform, not punish?

Beccaria

400

Declaration of the Rights of Woman

Olympe de Gouges

400

Before the French revolution, French kings lived here

Versailles

400

Emperor Joseph II

Austria

400

The Duchess of Provence

Second

500

She wrote that one cannot believe in equality for men without supporting equality for women

Wollestonecraft

500

The Social Contract

Rousseau

500

The American War for Independence ended after the attack on this Virginia city

Yorktown
500

Catherine the Great

Russia

500

Camille Desmoulins, a newspaper publisher

Third

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