Name That Thinker
This woman argued that girls and women should have equal opportunities for education.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Thomas Paine’s Common Sense argued that the colonies should break away from this country.
Great Britain / Britain
Mary Wollstonecraft believed girls should have the same opportunities as boys to receive this.
An education
Hobbes believed that without government, life would be peaceful or dangerous.
Dangerous
Mike researched this president, who founded the University of Virginia.
Thomas Jefferson
This author wrote Common Sense to encourage American independence.
Thomas Paine
Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman argued for equal education for this group.
Women / girls and women
This writer used Common Sense to persuade colonists to support independence.
Thomas Paine
Hobbes believed people accepted a powerful government to gain peace and this protection from harm.
Safety / security
Annie researched this writer, who challenged the idea that women should only work in the home.
Mary Wollstonecraft
This thinker supported dividing government power among three branches.
Montesquieu
This thinker wrote The Spirit of Laws.
Montesquieu
Voltaire supported using this, careful thinking and logic, to make decisions.
Reason
Dividing government power among different branches is called this.
Separation of powers
Jack learned that this famous American encouraged Thomas Paine to move to America.
Benjamin Franklin
This English thinker wrote about philosophy, government, and education. His last name sounds like something you use to secure a door.
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes wrote this book to explain why society needed a powerful ruler.
Leviathan
George Mason helped write this 1776 Virginia document protecting individual freedoms.
The Virginia Declaration of Rights
Hobbes described an agreement in which people give up some freedoms in exchange for protection.
The social contract
Kai researched this Virginian, who opposed British policies and helped write the Virginia Declaration of Rights.
George Mason
This philosopher also composed music and wrote about how the arts and sciences could harm people’s morals.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
This writer used satire, humor that criticizes people or society, in plays, books, and other works.
Voltaire
Montesquieu supported dividing government power among branches to protect this, another word for freedom.
Liberty
Name all three branches of government described in the response about Montesquieu.
Legislative, executive, and judicial
Oziel researched Hobbes. What did Hobbes call the condition of life without government?
The state of nature