USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Enlightenment thinkers believed people should have the right to express themselves, to move around freely, and to petition the government. If there was no government at all, people would live in a state of nature with no rules and complete freedom-but without any protection from each other.

Detailed explanation-2: -Enlightenment thinkers wanted to improve human conditions on earth rather than concern themselves with religion and the afterlife. These thinkers valued reason, science, religious tolerance, and what they called “natural rights”-life, liberty, and property.

Detailed explanation-3: -Enlightenment thinkers argued that liberty was a natural human right and that reason and scientific knowledge-not the state or the church-were responsible for human progress. But Enlightenment reason also provided a rationale for slavery, based on a hierarchy of races.

Detailed explanation-4: -Enlightenment thinkers believed that human beings are born with fundamental, basic rights. These natural rights included the right to life, liberty, property, and the freedom to find happiness.

Detailed explanation-5: -François-Marie Arouet, known to history as Voltaire, died on May 30th, 1778. He was a major figure in the Enlightenment, a writer, historian and philosopher, renowned for his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of speech, and the separation of church and state.