Vocab
Something you are allowed to do because you are a person.
What are rights?
Believes in the protection of Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
What was the Enlightenment?
A movement where people started to question how a government should operate
What was the Scientific Revolution?
A movement fueled by using logic and reason to understand the natural world
Name of the speech by Sojourner Truth
Ain't I a Woman?
The process of making an area more city-like, usually through an increase in population
What is urbanization?
Believes the government should be separated into three branches.
Who is Baron de Montesquieu?
How did increased literacy rate help fuel the Enlightenment?
Helped increase the spread of new ideas.
Who was Nicolaus Copernicus?
Natural philosopher who created the first model of a heliocentric universe
What was the Enlightenment Era like for women?
Women were often not included in the conversation of protecting/granting rights.
The group of people that has the power to make laws and important decisions for a community, state, or nation.
What is government?
Believed in the Freedom of Expression.
Who is Voltaire?
What are the Natural Rights?
What is Life, Liberty, and Property (land)?
Who was Galileo?
Natural philosopher who was almost executed for promoting heliocentrism
What was the Enlightenment like for Black people?
Black people were often not included in the conversation of protecting/granting rights.
A king or queen with complete control
What is an absolute monarch?
Most well know for the Social Contract Theory.
Who is Jean-Jacque Rousseau?
What is Legislative, Executive, and Judicial?
The organized Christian church led by the Pope, centered in Rome.
What is the Catholic Church?
The Enlightenment Era ended around the late 1700s. Which century did the Atlantic Slave Trade reach its height?
Late 1700s.
One who thinks about, questions, and studies the nature of life, truth, knowledge, and other important human matters
What is a philosopher?
Created the 28 volume Encyclopedie
Who is Denis Diderot?
Describe the Social Contract Theory.
We give up natural freedoms to protect the general will of the people and certain personal liberties.
When did the Enlightenment take place?
After the Scientific Revolution during the mid 1600s - 1700s.
What is Ms. Larsen's favorite number?
24!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!