Question

Which statement correctly analyzes how Enlightenment thinker Thomas Hobbes’s ideas impacted the American Revolution?(1 point)
Responses

Thomas Hobbes rewrote the founding document of the revolution to include women, emphasizing equality.
Thomas Hobbes rewrote the founding document of the revolution to include women, emphasizing equality.

Thomas Hobbes’s ideas on liberty, equality, and fraternity became the rallying cry of the American Revolution.
Thomas Hobbes’s ideas on liberty, equality, and fraternity became the rallying cry of the American Revolution.

Colonists felt that their agreement with the king had been broken when he violated their rights.
Colonists felt that their agreement with the king had been broken when he violated their rights.

Colonists revolted when their rights to life, liberty, and property were ignored by the king.
Colonists revolted when their rights to life, liberty, and property were ignored by the king.

Answer 1

"Colonists felt that their agreement with the king had been broken when he violated their rights."

Note: the idea of a "broken social contract" inspired the Revolution, but that argument came from John Locke (natural rights and right to revolt), not Hobbes (who argued for strong, even absolute, sovereign authority).