Ideas of the Enlightenment

Question 1

Under the social contract proposed by Thomas Hobbes, why would people give up some freedom?

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to receive government protection

Question 2

How was Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s criticism of inequality incomplete?

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He did not believe women should have the same rights as men.

Question 3

Read the excerpt:We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, ensure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.-Preamble to the US Constitution

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It reflects the idea that the government’s power comes from the people.

Question 4

Why did John Locke believe it was sometimes appropriate to overthrow the government?

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He believed that governments could fail to protect people’s rights.

Question 5

How did limiting voting rights to white male landowners affect Americans in 1776?

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The promise of equality did not extend to most Americans.

Question 6

Why was Phillis Wheatley able to share her talents with the world?

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She received an education and learned to read and write.

Question 7

How was the new government of the United States similar to the government under British rule?

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The new government gave power to one group of people.

Question 8

Read the passage from the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen.Law is the expression of the general will. Every citizen has the right to participate personally, or through their representatives, to its foundation. It must be the same for all, whether it protects or punishes.-Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, Rousseau

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democracy

Question 9

The Nineteenth Amendment to the US Constitution, which became law in 1920, granted women the right to vote.Why is this an expansion of the idea of equality held by Enlightenment thinker Jean-Jacques Rousseau?

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Rousseau believed that women should not have the same rights as men.

Question 10

Read the excerpt from the Declaration of Independence.That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it.-Declaration of Independence

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John Locke

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