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Transcribed Image Text:Major Ideas of the Enlightenment
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Idea
Thinker
Impact
Natural rights-Hife,
liberty, property
Locke
Fundamental to U.S. Declaration of Independence
1. Which Enlightenment
thinkers influenced the
United States government? -
Separation of powers
Montesquieu
France, United States; Latin American nations use
separation of powers in new constitutions
Freedom of thought
and expression
Guaranteed in U.S. Bill of Rights and French
Declaration of the Rights of Man and. Citizen; European
monarchs reduce or eliminate censorship
Voltaire
Guaranteed in U.S. Bill of Rights; torture outlawed or
reduced in nations of Europe and the Americas
Abolishment of torture
Beccaria
Guaranteed in U.S. Bill of Rights and French Declaration
of the Rights of Man and Citizen; European monarchs
reduce persecution
2. Which Enlightenment ideas
are in the United States Bill
of Rights?
Religious freedom
Voltaire
Women's rights groups form in Europe and North
America
Women's equality
Wollstonecraft
Littoll Inc. All rights roserved.
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