Enlightenment Thinkers
This thinker advocated for freedom of speech and freedon of religion
Who is Voltaire?
The idea that freedoms belong to all humans from birth
What are Natural Rights?
A form of government where all authority belongs to the monarch alone.
What is Absolute Monarchy?
Enlightenment thinkers applied this to understand and improve society.
What is reason/logic?
Locke's Natural Laws served as the basis for this US document.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
She advocated for women's rights to education on the basis of their reason.
Who is Wollstonecraft?
The intellectual movement that stressed reason and logic to answer societal questions
What is the Enlightenment?
The theory that monarchs are chosen by God and cannot be challenged.
What is Divine Right?
The method of learning involving observations and testing hypotheses.
What is the Scientific Method?
Voltaire's ideas on freedom of speech and religion inspired this US document.
What is the Bill of Rights/First Amendment?
This philosopher believed government power should be separated into branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
The division of government into branches with separate powers.
What is Separation of Powers?
This French king built the Palace of Versailles to showcase his power.
Who is Louis XIV?
This philosophe said all people are innocent until proven guilty
Who is Beccaria?
Montesquieu's idea of separation of powers is reflected in this document.
What is the US Constitution?
He inspired Jefferson's ideas of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
Who is John Locke?
The idea that citizens give up some freedom in exchange for government protection.
What is the Social Contract?
The palace built outside Paris to control the nobility.
What is Versailles?
Hobbes believed people needed this type of strong government to prevent chaos.
What is an absolute ruler/Leviathan?
The Enlightenment will cause this to happen around the world
What are revolutions?
This economist advocated for "laissez-faire" or hands-off economic policy.
Who is Adam Smith?
The belief that legitimacy of government comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
This period in history when Kings and Queens had total or near total power.
What is the Age of Absolutism?
Rousseau believed citizens could rule as long as they were educated and had this.
What is a Social Contract?
Why the Enlightenment is considered a turning point in world history
What is it challenged traditional authority and promoted individual rights/reason?