Enlightenment Thinkers
An early advocate for women's rights
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
The idea that the Sun is at the center of the universe and the Earth revolved around the Sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This man nicknamed himself the Sun King because he believed he was the center of the French nation, much like the Sun was the center of the universe.
Who is Louis XIV?
This act taxed American colonists on all printed material and sparked the beginnings of the revolution.
What is the Stamp Act?
This man led the Reign of Terror in France.
Who is Robespierre?
Wrote about the importance of a separation of powers within government
Who is Montesquieu?
This man developed a thermometer that used mercury, similar to modern day thermometers.
Who is Gabriel Fahrenheit?
The Palace at Versailles was built for this reason.
What is to showcase Louis XIV's power and might?
Most Enlightenment thinkers believed that the power of the government comes from this.
What is the people?
After overthrowing the French government in a coup, this man named himself First Consul and subsequently began his attempts to unify Europe under French rule.
Who is Napoleon?
Believed people are the source of power and the government must protect the people's rights
Who is John Locke?
These two scientists agreed that the scientific method was a long, investigative period. One believed in human reasoning, and one believed in observation and experimentation.
Who are Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes?
This was required of anyone who wanted to enter into Louis XIV's room.
What is scratching the door with the left little finger?
Many writers from the Enlightenment found their books listed on this.
What is the Papal Index?
This was a system of social hierarchy in which society was split into the Roman Catholic clergy, the nobility, and the working/peasant class.
What is the Estate System?
Believed people are naturally wicked and a strong centralized government was needed to keep order.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
The time periods when people began studying the natural laws that governed the universe.
What are the Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment periods?
This type of monarchy is when a monarch shares the decision-making with a constitutionally organized government
What is a constitutional monarchy?
Enlightenment philosophers promoted this type of thinking.
What are rational and logical thinking?
This system was put in place to seriously weaken Britain's economy by prohibiting any European nation from trading with them.
What is the continental system?
"I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to death your right to say it"
Who is Voltaire?
The Catholic Church's reasoning for going against the Scientific Revolution.
What is going against traditional church teachings?
"L'etat c'est moi"
What is "I am the state."?
This early American document reflects Enlightenment ideals by having the government protect certain freedoms, such as speech and religion.
What is the Bill of Rights?
This was an agreement between members of the Third Estate which stated that they would not stop meeting until they were recognized as a legitimate government body.
What is the Tennis Court Oath?