Enlightenment 1
Another name for the Enlightenment was the ____, because people began applying logic to society and government.
Age of Reason
John Locke believed that the government should protect the life, liberty, and property of its citizens. These things are called ____.
Natural Rights
The French and Indian War of 1756-1763, was fought between ____.
Britain and the American Colonies
vs.
France and the Native Americans
After winning the French and Indian War, Britain faced the problem of ____.
Very high debt
Author of the book, The Wealth of Nations
Adam Smith
The ____ was the era that most inspired people to apply reason to society and government during the Enlightenment.
Scientific Revolution
A ____ is when the government agrees to protect natural rights and citizens agree to abide by the laws and respect their leaders.
Social Contract
The first tax passed by Parliament to pay off their war debt was ____.
Stamp Act
American Patriots responded to the taxes from Britain by ____.
Tarring and feathering tax collectors
Enlightenment thinker who believed that women should have equal access to education as men.
Wollstonecraft
The idea that religion should not be involved in the government is called ___.
Separation of Church and State
Citizens have the right to rebel if the government ____.
Breaks the Social Contract
During the Boston Massacre, ____ American colonists were killed.
Five
After the Boston Tea Party, in which the Sons of Liberty dumped nearly $1million worth of tea (in today's money), Britain responded with ____.
Intolerable Acts
The treaty that ended the French and Indian War
Treaty of Paris
The Enlightenment idea of ____ ensures that no single leader has too much power.
Separation of Powers
All of the following are natural rights EXCEPT ____.
Life
Liberty
Property
Money
Money
After the Colonies decided to break away from Britain, ____ became the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
The Declaration asserted that the rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness, are included in the ____ of all people.
Inalienable rights
The city in Canada that Britain took during the French and Indian War, in which General Wolfe was killed.
Battle of Quebec.
Thomas Hobbes, author of the book Leviathan, believed that a social contract should have ____ in charge of the government.
An Absolute Monarch
Jean Jacques Rousseau believed that people were basically good, but corrupted by ____.
Society
In the Declaration of Independence, government exists in order to ____.
Protect the rights of the people
In the Declaration of Independence, if governments do not protect the rights of the people, then the people have the right to ____.
Overthrow and replace the government
Enlightenment thinker who came up with the heliocentric theory.
Copernicus