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Enlightenment Thinkers
Enlightenment
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
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
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
Wrote about justice and the law. He did not approve of cruel and unusual punishment.
What is Cesare Beccaria
200
The enlightenment was shaped by this, which was a time when reformers questioned the authority of the Roman Catholic church and argued that individuals should think for themselves.
What is the protestant reformation
200

This person believed that a criminal should receive a fair and speedy trial

Who is Beccaria.

200

freedom of choice

What is liberty?

300

Copernicus discovered....

What is the heliocentric theory?

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
Enlightenment thinkers found ideal in these two classical societies. These two classical societies developed the idea that people should have a voice in their government and the belief in humans ability to use reason and observation.
What are Greece and Rome
300
Believed that government should be separated into three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial, to provide checks and balances.
What is Montesquieu
300

The justification for the rulers to have absolute power that says power comes from God.

Divine right

400

Name 3 of the 6 important concepts from the Enlightenment

progress

toleration

deism

liberalism

republicanism

reason

400
American who included many Enlightenment ideas in the Declaration of Independence
What is Thomas Jefferson
400
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
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 American Revolution and Declaration of Independence were influenced by this intellectual movement.

What is the Enlightenment?

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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