Enlignt Potpourri
Roots
Thinkers
Women
Impact
100
The center of the Age of Enlightenment? (What country?)
What is France? England is also acceptable.
100
Men and women Enlightenment thinkers are also referred to as.
Who are philosophers?
100
Held that for humans, life was "nasty, brutish, and short," and that man was essentially "bad" by nature.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
100
Madame Geoffrin, along with many other women, contributed to the spread of Enlightenment ideas by hosting these social gatherings all over Europe
What are salons?
100
Revolutions that were inspired by Enlightenment ideas. (DAILY DOUBLE if you can name both!)
What are the American and French revolutions?
200
The time period of the Age of Enlightenment
What is the 17th century?
200
The Enlightenment and the Scientific Revolution are similar due to both valuing this. (two words)
What is observation and reason?
200
These rights were thought of by John Locke during the Enlightenment and you get them just by existing as a human being.
What are 'natural rights'?
200
Mary Wollstonecraft considered this the key to equality and freedom for women?
What is education?
200
A document inspired by Enlightenment thinkers that changed the United States and impacted England?
What is the Declaration of Independence? Bill of Rights is acceptable.
300
A second name for the Age of Enlightenment.
What is the Age of Reason?
300
The eras of Renaissance, Reformation, and Enlightenment all find worth in this.
What is the individual?
300
Montesquieu's doctrine of separation of powers in government is where the framers of the American system got the idea to separate its government into these three branches
What is executive, legislative, and judicial?
300
Told her husband the men must plan a country that included the rights for women.
Who is Abigail Adams?
300
A feature of the criminal justice system that the United States does not use due to Beccaria.
What is torture?
400
The new era of Enlightenment meant that people could now do this for themselves.
What is think?
400
The image of God Enlightenment thinkers emphasized.
What is the creator of laws of nature?
400
The rights of prisoners and of the accused were vocalized during the Enlightenment by this Italian philosopher
Who is Beccaria?
400
Olympe de Gouges believed that women should have this (two words) with men in family life and in the church.
What is 'equal power'?
400
According to Locke's social contract, this gives government its authority.
What is agreement among free people.
500

This aristocratic philosophe was devoted to the study of political liberty.  He proposed that the separation of powers would keep an individual or group from gaining total control of a government

Who is Montesquieu

500
An old idea regarding monarchy that all Enlightenment philosophers did not believe in.
What are the 'divine rights of kings'?
500
The Roman Catholic clergy were the main target of this French "philosophe," who was also a champion of individual rights and religious toleration
Who is Voltaire?
500

Catherine the Great of Russia, Fredrick the Great of Prussia, and Joseph II of Austria try to benefit their people by supporting the philosophe's ideas, they became known as

Who are 'enlightened despots'? or absolute rulers who supported the philosophe's ideas.

500
The proliferation of books, newspapers, magazines, and pamphlets led to a dramatic growth in this during the 18th century
What is literacy?
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