Category 1
a time beginning in the 1600’s and lasting until the 1700’s in which philosophers used reason to seek truths about human nature; also known as the Age of Reason.
What is Scientific Revolution?
a gathering of great thinkers and artists to discuss and exchange ideas during the Enlightenment.
What are salons?
rights people are born with such as the right to live, be free and own property.
What are natural rights?
unfair treatment of a group of people.
What is precaution?
makes the laws; Senate, Congress.
What is the Legislative Branch?
people who studied politics, justice, liberty, property.
What are political philosophers?
publication that attempted to gather all the knowledge of humankind into a series of books.
What are Encyclopedias?
kings or queens that held ultimate power with no one to check on them.
What are absolute monarchs?
freedom.
What is liberty?
enforces the laws; police, military. President.
What is the Executive Branch?
a time in the 1500’s and 1600’s where scientists tried to explain the workings of the universe by using logic, reason and science.
What is The Enlightenment?
kings and queens.
What are monarchs?
form of government where people choose leaders by voting.
What is a democracy?
open-minded and educated.
What is enlightenment?
said humans were not born with basic ideas, but they were learned from experiences.
Who is John Locke?
educated people.
What are scholars?
the idea that a king ruled by the authority of God.
What are divine rights of kinds?
disagreed with.
What are opposed?
the change from one way of doing something in a society to another way.
What is revolutionary?
argued that well educated women would help create enlightened families.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
changes.
What are reforms?
to give permission to be governed.
What is consent?
false beliefs.
What is superstition?
interprets the laws; court system.
What is the Judicial Branch?
spoke out against religious intolerance. In response to his writings about the church, he was jailed at times.
Who is Valtaire?