Section 1
Section 1
Section 2
Section 2 & 3
Section 3
100
Natural law
What rules discoverable by reason did the Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior?
100
Montesquieu
Inspired the checks and balances in the US Constitution
100
Escape censorship
Reason Enlightenment writers used fiction as a vehicle for their ideas
100
Classical
New musical style that started during the Enlightenment composed by Handel, Haydn and Mozart
100
Revised in 1787
What are the Articles of Confederation
200
A Vindication of the Rights of Women
Mary Wollstonecraft argued that both women and men should have equal educational opportunities in this book
200
Diderot
Complied an Encyclopedia that spread Enlightenment ideas
200
Influenced political and social change
What is an enlightened despot?
200
God set up the old order
Justification the church used for censorship
200
Cotton
British merchants dominated trade with South America selling this commodity
300
Physiocrats
Supported a government policy of laissez faire
300
Adam Smith
Said that in a free market supply and demand would regulate the business activity
300
Joseph II
Enlightened despot who traveled in disguise to see the problems of peasants for himself
300
Less blurred social distinctions
Effect of more diverse groups of people in America
300
Stamp Act
Imposed taxes on newspapers, pamphlets, playing cards and dice.
400
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from this period
400
Locke
Enlightenment thinker who said that government should safeguard the rights of the people
400
Voltaire's novel that exposes corruption and hypocrisy
What is Candide?
400
Purpose was to regulate colonial trade and manufacturing
What was the purpose to the British Navigation Acts
400
Federal Republic
Divides power between national and state governments
500
Hobbes
Said the best form of government is an absolute monarchy
500
Natural law
Law discoverable by reason
500
Challenged the old order
The reason Enlightenment writers faced censorship
500
Battle of Saratoga
What was the turning point in the American Revolution that convinced France to come to US aid
500
Montesquieu
His idea of separation of powers was borrowed by Americans writing the Constitution
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