The Age of Enlightenment Web Quest
Use the links to answer the following questions. If you are working in a pair
each person must turn in their own paper. Write your answers on a separate
sheet of paper.
GO TO: http://score.rims.k12.ca.us/score_lessons/growth_of_democratic/
1. What did intellectuals in the Age of Reason examine?
2. What two things did the liberal ideas state?
3. In the contract, what did both the ruler and the citizen have?
4. Why does power need to be separated and balanced?
5. What is constitutionalism?
6. What did the philosophers believe the government/law should reflect?
7. If government was corrupt & abused it's power, what right do the people have?
8. What does the ruler have the right to expect?
CLICK ON: John Locke
9. What did Thomas Jefferson use Locke's ideas to write?
10. What 3 natural rights did Locke believe all individuals had?
11. What did Locke write (title)?
CLICK ON: Mary Wollstonecraft
12. What did Wollstonecraft say was unfair to women?
13. What did she advocate for?
14. What did she write (title)?
CLICK ON: Montesquieu
15. What 2 things did Montesquieu say about government?
16. What did Montesquieu believe about the individual?
17. What did he write (title)?
CLICK ON: Rousseau
18. What did Rousseau believe the state was created for?
19. According to Rousseau, what is government?
20. What did he write (title)?