Enlightenment Thinkers
Key Ideas
People in History
Important Events
Definitions
100

This Enlightenment thinker believed in natural rights like life, liberty, and property.

John Locke

100

This is the name of the book Thomas Hobbes wrote.

Leviathan

100

This person was a Russian ruler.

Czar

100

After this war, Britain won all the French land in North America.

The French and Indian War

100

This is what Thomas Hobbes believed our lives would be without government.


    • Nasty, brutish, and short


200

This Enlightenment writer advocated for freedom of speech and religious toleration.

Voltaire

200

This is the idea that government is an agreement between the ruler and the people.

The Social Contract

200

 This person discovered that the sun is at the center of the universe.

Nicolaus Copernicus

200

The purpose of this act was to have the colonies help pay for the war.


    • The Stamp Act


200

This is what Voltaire advocated for

Freedom of speech, religious toleration, and the separation of church and state

300

This Enlightenment thinker wrote about the separation of powers.

Montesquieu

300

This is what Thomas Hobbes believed people are born.

Wicked

300

This person was a famous mathematician who formulated a theory of gravity.

 Isaac Newton

300

This is a form of government with 3 separate branches.

The federal system

300

This is what John Locke believed were all natural rights.


    •  Life, liberty, and property


400

This Enlightenment writer advocated for Women’s Rights.

Mary Wollstonecraft


400

This is what Montesquieu wrote the book.

The Spirit of Laws

400

This person is the founder of modern chemistry.

Robert Boyle

400

This person developed the heliocentric model of the universe.

Copernicus

400

This is what the Enlightenment thinkers questioned.


    •  Traditional authority


500

This was the age of applying reason to the human and natural worlds.

The Enlightenment

500

This is what Rene Descartes declared.

 “I think; therefore, I am!”

500

This person was the author of Leviathan.

Thomas Hobbes

500

This person famously said, “Without government, our lives would be nasty, brutish, and short!”


    • Thomas Hobbes


500

This is what the Social Contract dictates.

Government is an agreement between the ruler and the people

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