Historical moment in Europe when reason advocates to explain society and politics.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
Philosophe who proposed the Natural Rights.
Who is John Locke?
100
Social gatherings in France where wealthy and educated women discussed ideas with artists and philosophes.
What is Salons?
100
Major figure in the American Enlightenment, mediator during the colonists revolt against Great Britain, famous for his electricity experiments involving a kite.
What is Benjamin Franklin?
100
Absolute monarch who's weak leadership faced the French Revolution
Who is Louis XVI?
200
Name that thinkers in Europe who proposed enlightened ideas during the 1700's receive.
What is philosophes or philosophers?
200
Pen name of François Marie Arouet; philosophe who advocates freedom of speech.
What is Voltaire?
200
One of the most admired hostess of the social gatherings in France, able to invite great philosophes and discuss with them about their great ideas.
What is Madame Marie Therese Rodet Geoffrin?
200
True American figure of the enlightenment, believed in natural rights, principal author of the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Fourteen year old bride, heiress of the Austrian monarchy, engaged to the become the new Queen of France, found guilty of treason and decapitated by the guillotine.
Who is Marie Antoinette?
300
Life, Liberty and Property.
What is Natural Rights?
300
Enlightened noble who proposed the separation of powers
What is Baron of Montesquieu?
300
Woman who taught herself at home, published essays about the rights of women and mother to Mary Shelley -author of Frankenstein.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
300
Document wrote in July 4th, 1776 that begins "All men are created equal..." and reflects Locke's thinking when it says that people have the right to form a new government when the old one fails to protect their rights
What is the Declaration of Independence?
300
The most representative act of the French Revolution
What is the Storming of the Bastille?
400
Absolute rulers who tried to use power in a justa n enlighted way
What is enlightenment despots?
400
French philosophe who opposes absolute monarchs, believes men are born free but society holds them in chains and "woman was specifically made to please man"
Who is Jean Jacques Rousseau?
400
Essay wrote by Mary Wollstonecraft where she disagrees with many male Enlightenment philosophers arguing that women should be educated to help create enlightened families and participate in medicine and politics
What is A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?
400
Supreme law adopted in 1787 by the first government of the United States that reads "We the people..."
What is the Constitution?
400
Jacobin leader who seized power as the result of the French Revolution
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
500
European nation where enlightened ideas flourished.
What is France?
500
Monarch who call himself "the first servant of the state"
What is Frederick II of Prussia?
500
Criticized the lack of educational opportunities for women
What is Mary Astell?
500
Constitutional laws that guarantee basic rights to citizens such as speech, religion and press.