Vocab Terms
An agreement by which people gave up their freedoms to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos.
What is the Social Contract?
Belongs to all humans from birth such as life, liberty, and property.
What is Natural Right?
Informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophers, and others exchanged ideas.
What are salons?
Imposed taxes on items such as newspapers and pamphlets.
What is the Stamp Act?
King of Prussia, a supporter of the Enlightenment and it's reforms.
Who is Fredrick the Great?
Absolute rulers who used their power to bring about political and social change.
What are Enlightened Despot?
Believer that humans were naturally wicked and would run wild without a strong, controlling government.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
Licensing, restriction, forbidding, controlling the press, and government control.
What is Censorship?
Where the British army surrendered.
What is Yorktown, Virginia?
Promoter of the Social Contract.
Who is Rousseau?
A policy/attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
What is Laissez Faire?
Believer that humans are to be naturally reasonable and moral, but are corrupted by society.
Who is John Locke?
Empress of Russia who believed in the Enlightenment ideas of equality and liberty.
Who is Catherine the Great?
Britain acknowledged the independence of America.
What is the Treaty of Paris?
English monarch at the time of the American Revolution.
Who is George III?
A type of government with power divided between the national government and the states.
What is a Federal Republic?
Writer of The Encyclopedia.
Who is Diderot?
Runner of one of the most respected salons.
Who is Madame Geoffrin?
American philosopher, scientist, publisher, legislator, and diplomat sent to France.
Who is Ben Franklin?
Defender of freedom of speech and battled corruption, injustice, and inequality.
Who is Voltaire?
Principle that states all government power comes from the people.
What is Popular Sovereignty?
Scottish economist who argued for a free market and Laissez Faire.
Who is Adam Smith?
A style of art and architecture characterized by much ornamentation and curved rather than straight lines.
What is Baroque?
One of the writers of the Constitution and 4th President of the United States.
Who is James Madison?
Man that was chosen to lead the American Army.
Who is George Washington?