Forms of Gov
Philosophers
ROOTS
Vocab
terms & misc
100

This form of government has one leader with all the power who is usually the king or queen

What is Monarchy?

100

The Enlightenment Philosopher who believed that women should be treated equally to men.

Who was Mary Wollstonecraft?

100

The center of the Age of Enlightenment? (What country?)

What is France? England is also acceptable.

100

A logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.

What is the scientific method?

100

Cesare Beccaria was enlightenment philosopher who spoke about crime and fair punishments. He believed things such as _________________ should be outlawed. 

What is torture or the death penalty?

200

This form of government has a few powerful individuals with all of the power

Oligarchy

200
The philosopher who believed that rulers should be as powerful as a Leviathon, or sea monster, and people were evil by nature.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
200

The time period of the Age of Enlightenment

What is the 17th century? (1600-1700s)

200

They believed that people should apply reason to all aspects of life and discussed politics and ideas together.

Who or what were philosophes?

200
The theory that the sun is the center of the universe.
What is heliocentric?
300

This form of government gives the power to the people

What is democracy?

300
The Enlightenment Philosopher who believed that people were good by nature could rule themselves.
Who was John Locke?
300

A second name for the Age of Enlightenment.

What is the Age of Reason?
300
Life, liberty and property?
What are natural rights?
300
Enlightenment ideals inspire British colonists to declare independence from Britain and form their own country (America) after winning this war. 

What is The Revolutionary War? or The American Revolution?

400

This form of democracy elects government official who represent the people

What is representative democracy?

400

Believed that power should not be concentrated in one place, like a King, but should be separated into branches of government.

Who was Montesquieu? 

400

The new era of Enlightenment meant that people could now do this for themselves.

What is think or form decisions/ideas

400
An agreement between society and government by which people create a government and allow it power over them.
What is the social contract?
400

This document, was the first document to limit the power of the king in England. It also placed limits on future kings and began to give laws to British nobles.

What is the Magna Carta?

500

This form of government has one leader who seizes or takes all the power for them self.

What is tyranny?

500

The Enlightenment Philosopher who believed that people unofficial signed a social contract with their government to exchange some of their rights for security.

Who was Rousseau?

500

An old idea regarding monarchs power that all Enlightenment philosophers did not believe in.

What is Divine Rights of Kings?

500
The division of power among different branches of government.
What is separation of powers?
500

This document lays out the framework and rules/guidelines for a country's government to follow.

What is a constitution?

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