People
Which Enlightenment thinker prompted natural rights; life, liberty, and property.
John Locke
What was the 18th-century intellectual movement where thinkers applied reason and logic to society?
Enlightenment
What are the names of the revolutions that Enlightenment ideas started?
American revolution, French revolution, and the Glorious revolution.
What government did Napoleon Bonaparte run in France after the revolution?
Dictatorship
Life, Liberty, Property is located in which document?
Declaration of Independence
Enlightment thinker who said absolute monarchy is necessary, and that people are cruel, greedy, and selfish.
Thomas Hobbes
Which document declared the basic rights of all Americans?
US bill of rights
What was the name of the promise to make a constitution of the people to the French?
Tennis court oath
Social contract definition?
a theory that individuals give up rights and control in exchange for protection and participation
What are John Lockes three natural rights.
1. Life
2. Liberty
3. Property
Which enlightmennt thinker prompted the separation of powers. hint; 3 branches of government.
Baron De Montesquieu
A logical prodedure for gathering infomation and testing ideas.
Scientific method
People started to question inequality in government due to what main reasons?
1. Enlightenment ideas
2. Belief of rights
3. Questioning faith over reason
What is the state of nature?
What life would be without government
The Time period of challenging the church ideas with reason and logic over faith?
Enlightement
Which enlightment thinker prompted freedom of speech and religion.
Voltaire
John Lockes idea is that the purpose of goverment should be what?
To protect rights
Enlightenment ideals influenced the framers of the Constitution in the US. Name some of those people.
1. Thomas Jefferson
2. John Handcock (wrote his name the largest)
3. John Locke
What is the three branches of goverenment?
legislative, judicial, and executive—in order to ensure that no one branch of a governing body can gain too much authority.
Explain the 3 estates of France.
3rd (lowest) 2nd estate (middle) 1st esate (highest)
3rd = peasants
2nd= nobles
1st= Kings
Which enlightenment thinker believes that people are good and that society is corrupt—hint; social contract.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
What is the idea of religious freedom to people of all faiths and traditions without any discrimination?
Religious Tolerance
Explain why Enlightenment ideas influenced revolutions.
People start to question how a government should function and decide to overthrow unfit governments.
What does Rationalism mean?
Arguably the foundation of the Enlightenment, the belief that, by using the power of reason, humans could arrive at truth and improve human life.
What document was modeled after the American Declaration of Independence?
French Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen