Question

True or False: Enlightenment thinkers excluded many groups from the rights of “all people”. Women, indigenous, people of color and people who were enslaved were excluded.(1 point)
Responses

True
True

False

Answer 1

True.

Although Enlightenment ideas spoke of universal rights, in practice many thinkers and political movements limited those rights to white men and excluded women, indigenous peoples, people of African descent, and enslaved people.