This Enlightenment thinker is famous world-wide for developing social contract theory.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
The spread of ideas of progress, individual rights, and the betterment of society is a result of this philosophical movement.
What is Enlightenment?
100
During the Scientific Revolution, thinkers like Bacon, Galileo, and Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based upon this.
What is Experimentation and Observation?
100
Rousseau supported this type of government.
What is direct democracy?
100
What philosophical idea of Locke's was fundamental to the U.S. declaration of Independence?
What is Natural Rights- Life, Liberty, and property?
200
This person strongly supported individual liberties like free speech.
Who is Voltaire?
200
The writers and philosophers of the Enlightenment believed that government decisions should be based on this.
What is laws of nature and reason?
200
The theory that the earth was the center of the solar system.
What is Geocentric theory?
200
Hobbes supported this type of government.
What is absolute monarchy?
200
Beccaria was strongly opposed to these two kinds of punishment.
What are torture and the death penalty (capital Punishment)?
300
Came up with the idea of dividing government power between separate branches.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
300
The US government was created using this principle of power distribution.
What is separate branches/checks and balances?
300
The theory that the sun is the center of the solar system.
What is heliocentric theory?
300
Locke's belief about humans, which was a primary difference from Hobbes.
What is humans are naturally good?
300
This philosopher is most responsible for America's religious freedoms.
Who is Voltaire?
400
This Enlightenment thinker urged for equal rights among men, but left out women.
Who is Rousseau?
400
Enlightenment thinkers relied on logic and reason, as opposed to this
What is tradition or religion?
400
The period where observation and experimentation became more important than tradition.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
400
In English history, the Magna Carta, the Petition of Rights, and the English Bill of Rights all made advancements in the move from Absolute Monarchy to this type of government.
What is limited monarchy?
400
This philosopher had a strong influence on women's equality.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
500
This man insisted that man is born with three inherent rights: life, liberty, and property.
What is John Locke?
500
According to Locke, the people have the right to overthrow the government if these three rights are not protected.
What is life, liberty, and property?
500
This was a new approach or process for scientific observation and experimentation.
What is the Scientific Method?
500
The statement, "Kings are God's lieutenants on earth", refers to this belief that the King's power came from God.
What is Rule by Divine Right?
500
The Enlightenment focused on the rights and achievements of...