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Provide the information each Age of Reason thinker contributed to his time.

1. John Locke

2. Jean-Jacques Rousseau

3. Isaac Newton

4. Baron de Montesquieu

5. Cotton Mather

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Answer: John Locke: People have the right to challenge their government if it doesn’t protect the “natural rights” of life, liberty, and property

Jean-Jacques Rousseau: Society should be ruled by the “general will” of the people.

Isaac Newton: Discovered laws of gravity and motion that showed the natural world wasn’t controlled by spirits

Baron de Montesquieu: Power should not be concentrated in the hands of one individual

Cotton Mather: Advocated the use of science to immunize citizens against smallpox

Explanation: These answers come from the readings of the American History: From Pre- Columbian to the New Millenium by the by the Independence Hall Association

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I know for a fact John Locke provided the common sense so you should put that as one of the facts for him
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