Critiacal Thinking
Terms, People and Places
Terms, People and Places PART II
Enlightenment and the Revolution
Enlightenment and Revolution PART II
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Enlightenment ideas were slow to influence the lives of Europeans. Name
One reason is the church. The Catholic Church was a major influence in Europe that most of the people looked to for guidance, it also was the main church in most of Europe. The Catholic church felt threatened by new ideas that the enlightenment brought on, so most people were scared to go against the church. Second - They engaged in censorship, burning books and imprisoning writers, to restrict access to information. Caption - They wanted to avoid censorship, so they disguised their ideas in fiction.
100
The principle that states that all government power comes from the people
What is popular sovereignty?
100
A social gathering place where thinkers could talk about their ideas.
What is salon?
100
The people that believed the laissez faire was the best trade policy.
What are the physiocrats?
100
Social distinction were more what in Europe?
What is more blurred?
200
One of the key issues leading up to the American Revolution had to do with the taxes American colonists paid to the government across the sea in England. The English felt that the colonists should pay taxes because the English government was providing services that the colonists would otherwise have had to do without. The Americans felt the taxes were unfair because they were being imposed by a government in which the colonists had no "voice."
What is "Taxation without Representation"
200
The light, delicate style of art that was common during the rule of Luis XV.
What is rococo?
200
Diderot helped spread this by publishing a collection of articles by leading thinkers.
What is ideas of Enlightenment?
200
What unique method did Joseph II use to find out avout the problems of the peasants?
What is traveled among the peasants in disguise?
200
The American victory that convinced France to support the colonists.
What is the Battle of Saratoga in the American Revolution?
300
we were up against the superpower of the time and we needed lots of money. Now who in their right mind would waste valuable funds on a losing proposition AND risk an even bigger war with it greatest arch rival? That was what France was looking at. In fact, other than the American colonies, Great Briton won the world war France, had other worries, such as their colonies in The Carribean. The only reason they even supported us, is because they wanted to stick it to the British!!!
What is the part France played in the American Revoution?
300
An enlightenment thinker that believed in the idea of the separation of powers in the government.
What is Montesquieu?
300
The people that chose George Washington to lead American forces in the American Revolution
Who is the Continental Congress?
300
A ruler who influenced political and social change.
What is an enlightened despot?
300
This was revised in Philadelphia in 1787.
What is the Articles of Confederation?
400
The philosophes thought the rococo style was superficial, because it was more decorative than functional.
What is Why might the philosophes have disliked the rococo style?
400
Taxes imposed on the colonies by this helped bring about the American Revolution.
Who is The Governement of Thomas Jefferson?
400
Thomas Jefferson wrote most of this?
What is the Declaration of Independence?
400
In her book A Vindication of the Rights of Women, this woman argued that women and men should have equal education?
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
How the judical branch can limit the power of executive branch.
What is declaring through the courts as something being unconstitutional?
500
This centered in France but the ideas of reform spread as far as Austria, Prussia, and Russia.
What is Enlightenment?
500
An economist that argued for a free market in which businesses could operate with few government rules.
Who is Adam Smith?
500
A grand formal style of art that was popular during the rule of Louis XIV.
What is baroque?
500
The Enlightenment writers often faced this when they challenged the old order.
What is censorship?
500
How did Hobbes and Lockes views on human nature influence their ideas on the proper role of government?
Locke believes people already know the difference between right and wrong - they have rights by nature, whereas Hobbes believes humans are interested in only self and egotistical - You conceded your rights to the government, in return for your life
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