Name________________________________________________Date________________________Period_____________
Match the Enlightenment thinker from this group to the idea below in which he or she would have been most
involved or interested.
Locke
Voltaire
Wollstonecraft
Montesquieu
Beccaria
Rousseau
U.S. Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Free exercise of religion _______________________________________
“You have the right to remain silent”____________________________________________________________
Nineteenth Amendment, Women’s Right to Vote __________________________________________________
U.S. Constitution, establishment of Executive, Legislative and Judicial branches _________________________
U.S. Bill of Rights, First Amendment, Freedom of Speech ___________________________________________
Citizens have the right to overthrow the government if it does not protect their rights ______________________
People in the U.S. can cut their hair or wear what they want to _______________________________________
Declaration of Independence, “life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness” __________________________________
Women can enter the military and become police officers and firefighters_______________________________
The concept that individuals can agree to create a government and society ______________________________
U.S. Bill of Rights, Eighth Amendment, rights against “cruel and unusual punishment” ____________________
Most corporations have a Board of Directors and executive staff that share decisions ______________________
U.S. Bill of Rights, Fifth Amendment, right to “due process”_________________________________________
Company policy that 50% of upper management is women __________________________________________
No government can take away basic rights that you are born with _____________________________________
People should have some representation in the making of laws _______________________________________
In the 2000s, many states have suspended capital punishment ________________________________________
Flappers in the 1920s in the U.S. dressed and acted differently than their mothers ________________________
Bullying because someone else is different is not allowed ___________________________________________
People give up some of their freedom so that the society may be better _________________________________