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Enlightenment Thinkers
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment Thinkers 2
Enlightenment Vocabulary
100

The traditional authorities during the Scientific Revolution

What were the church and ancient scholars?

100
This philosopher did not trust people to govern themselves. Instead he thought that because people were selfish and brutish in nature, they needed an absolute monarch to control them.
What is Thomas Hobbes
100

This scientist is known for their work with physics and laws of gravity

Who is Isaac Newton

100
Author who supported freedom of speech and religion and enlightened despotism
What is Voltaire
100

Having knowledge and spiritual insight

What is enlightened? 

200

The fundamental purpose of government

What is the protection of the natural rights of people?

200

This woman stood up for women's rights during the time of the enlightenment

Who is Mary Wollstonecraft
200
The immediate roots of the Enlightenement can be found in this. It is also the time when Isaac Newton applied rational analysis to nature leading to the discovery of natural laws
What is the scientific revolution
200

This economist believed that the government should not interfere with the economy.

Who is Adam Smith

200

freedom of choice

What is liberty?

300
The enlightenment was shaped by this, which was a time when humanists argued for the importance and worth of the individual.
What is the renaissance
300
Believed that if a government did not protect the natural rights of life, liberty, and property, citizens could replace their government
What is John Locke
300

This Italian Astronomer was put on house arrest for believing the Heliocentric Theory

Who is Galileo

300
Believed that government should be separated into three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial, to provide checks and balances.
What is Montesquieu
300

Rights that every human should have.

What are Natural Rights

400

The American Revolution and Declaration of Independence were influenced by this intellectual movement.

What is the Enlightenment?

400
American who included many Enlightenment ideas in the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
400

Copernicus discovered....

What is the heliocentric theory?

400

Believed that government was created to protect people from their own selfishness

Who is Thomas Hobbes.

400

People give up some freedom and in return their government protects their individual liberties 

What is Social Contract Theory?

500

Using the following quote: "When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another..." what Enlightenment idea can be understood...

What is the social contract?

500

Enlightenment thinker who wanted religious tolerance and free speech.

Voltaire.

500

The church believed that the Sun and planets revolved around the earth. 

What is Geocentric Theory.

500
Enlightenment thinker whose concept of a social contract says that a democracy would express the general will of the people
What is Rousseau
500

the idea that government should be divided among various individuals or institutions

Separation of powers

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