AP World- People of the Enlightenment

Question 0

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 0

• equal rights

- monarchy where the king is good, not bad

Question 1

John Locke

Answer 1

• absolute monarchy is bad
• self govern
• for French revolution
• government should protect life, liberty, and property

Question 2

Voltaire

Answer 2

• satire against nobility (clergy, nobles)
• keep fighting for your rights
• hates church
• doesn’t support revolution
• humanity’s enemies are intolerance, prejudiced, superstition

Question 3

Jean Jaques Rousseau

Answer 3

• direct democracy
• equal rights
• supports Enlightenment

Question 4

Baron De Montesquieu

Answer 4

• for Enlightenment
• republic
• for revolution

Question 5

Cesare Bonesana Beccaria

Answer 5

• no death penalty
• equality through classes
• for revolution
• wrote about crime prevention and criminal rights

Question 6

Adam Smith

Answer 6

• wrote Wealth of Nations (1776)
• capitalism
• government should not interfere with business
• wealth should not be judged by gold and silver but by its labor and products

Question 7

Benjamin Franklin

Answer 7

• equal rights for commoners
• fight for own rights
• freedom of speech
• against revolution
• went to Paris to get money for the American Revolution (sparked the debt)

Question 8

Edmund Burke

Answer 8

• democracy and violence are bad

- against the revolution

Question 9

Catherine the Great

Answer 9

• terror should be appeased
• hates French Revolution (wants aristocracy)
• support for women

Question 10

Frederik the Great

Answer 10

• patron of arts
• tolerant of religions
• for monarchy, against revolution
• Russian

Question 11

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 11

hopes revolution will help women