Enlightenment Ideas
What did Enlightenment thinkers believe was the best way to understand the world?
What is reason and logic?
This writer fought for equality of women's rights.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The System of government where one person or group controls all the power.
What is an unlimited government?
He argued for majority Rule.
Who is John Locke?
The tax on newspapers and legal documents that needed a stamp.
What is the Stamp Act?
What idea from the Scientific Revolution did Enlightenment thinkers apply to human society and government?
What is the idea of natural laws?
This philosopher believed people had natural rights including life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
Enlightenment ideas often challenged this traditional form of government where kings ruled with absolute power.
What is absolute monarchy?
He wrote the first encyclopedia.
Who is Denis Diderot?
He was a colonist that disagreed with the unfair taxes imposed by the British and fought for the separation of Church and political power. He would eventually become a president of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
Enlightenment thinkers believed people had these at birth, given to them by God.
What are natural rights?
This writer strongly supported freedom of speech and religion and criticized the French government.
Who is Voltaire?
Who said 'L'Etat C'est Moi'?
Who is King Louis XIV?
He wrote The Wealth of Nations and argued for free markets with no government intervention in the economy.
Who is Adam Smith.
He was an American Colonist that argued in the British Parliament, "No taxation without Representation".
Who is Benjamin Franklin?
This idea says government should express the will of the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
This Enlightenment thinker believed government power should be divided into different branches.
Who is Montesquieu?
A contract the describes the powers of the government and its relationship to the people.
What is a constitution?
"A man is born free, but everywhere he is in chains".
Who is Rousseau?
The war to control most of North America. Led to unfair taxes for colonists.
What is the Seven Years War (French-Indian War).
One of the Philosophes argued for separating the government into 3 branches. Those branches are...
What are the Executive, Legislative, Judicial branches?
Who wrote The Social Contract?
Who is Rousseau?
This principle ensures each branch of government can limit the power of the others.
What are Separation of Powers or checks and balances?
"I may disagree with what you have to say, but I'll defend to the death your right to say it".
Who is Voltaire?
The reason the British Empire imposed unfair taxes on the Colonists like the Stamp Act.
What is paying off war debts after defeating the French?