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100
This Enlightenment thinker believed that women should be more educated.
Who is Wollstonecraft?
100
This term is another word for Congress.
What is legislature?
100
This Enlightenment thinker deeply believed in unalienable rights.
Who is Locke?
100
This theory explained how the sun revolved around the earth.
What is geocentric?
200
"Power should check power" was a quote by this Enlightenment thinker.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
This term is another word for the president of the USA.
What is executive?
200
This Enlightenment thinker directly disagreed with Hobbes.
Who is Locke?
200
This form of government was ruled by a single ruler, not necessarily a King.
What is autocracy?
300
This Enlightenment thinker believed that people are naturally corrupt and self-interested.
Who is Hobbes?
300
This term describes a society in which everyone has a say within each decision made in government.
What is a direct democracy?
300
This Enlightenment thinker deeply believed in peoples' right to free speech and religion.
Who is Voltaire?
300
This form of government has directly elected representatives to voice peoples' concerns to government.
What is an indirect democracy/republic?
400
This Enlightenment thinker advocated for speedy trials.
Who is Beccaria?
400
At the constitutional convention they decided to split Congress into two houses, otherwise known as a ______ Congress.
What is bicameral?
400
This Enlightenment thinker thought that the punishment should fit the crime.
Who is Beccaria?
400
Hobbes described this term that referred to an agreement between people and government.
What is the social contract?
500
This Enlightenment thinker wanted to abolish titles within society: like the nobility class.
Who is Rousseau?
500
This term refers to the system that each branch of government has powers that can overrule other branches of government.
What is checks and balances?
500
This Enlightenment greatly influenced the 1st amendment of the US Bill of Rights, with freedom of religion and speech.
Who is Voltaire?
500
Life, liberty, and property embody this term.
What is unalienable rights?