He helped spread Enlightenment ideas by
compiling articles by leading thinkers into
a 28-volume work.
Who is Diderot?
100
King of England during the American Revolution. His government made policies that helped bring about the American Revolution.
Who is George III?
100
The rules discoverable by reason that Enlightenment thinkers tried to apply to the study of human behavior and society.
What is natural law?
100
The principle that all government power
comes from the people.
What is popular sovereignty?
100
Principal author of the Declaration of
Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Philosophe who wrote The Social Contract.
Who is Rousseau?
200
He was chosen to command the colonial forces in
the American Revolution.
Who is George Washington?
200
In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal_________________.
What is education?
200
Grand, ornate style of art and architecture
popular during the age of Louis XIV.
What is baroque?
200
Britain passed these ___________ Acts to regulate colonial trade and manufacturing.
What is the Navigation Acts?
300
Seventeenth-century thinker who wrote Leviathan.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
300
He proposed the idea of separation of powers
in government.
Who is Montesquieu?
300
Light and delicate artistic style popular
during the reign of Louis XV.
What is rococo?
300
The Battle of Saratoga marked a turning point in the American Revolution and convinced this country to support the revolution.
What is France?
400
This enlightened despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their problems.
Who is Joseph II?
400
He argued that the forces of supply and
demand in a free market can regulate
business activity.
Who is Adam Smith?
400
Any writers that challenged the old order were often subject to this.
What is censorship?
400
Social gathering where Enlightenment
thinkers exchanged ideas.
What is salon?
400
American leaders gathered in Philadelphia in 1787 to revise this.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
500
Seventeenth-century thinker who wrote Two Treatises of Government.
Who is John Locke?
500
Philosophe who used his writings to fight ignorance, superstition, and intolerance.
Who is Voltaire?
500
A member of a school of political economists founded in 18th century France and characterized chiefly by a belief that government policy should not interfere with the operation of natural economic laws and that land is the source of all wealth.
What is a Physiocrat?
500
An absolute ruler who uses power to bring about political and social change.
What is an enlightened despot?
500
Document ending the war, in which Britain recognized the independence of the United States of America.