Name of the King who first signed the Magna Carta.
Who is King John?
100
Hobbes' idea of an agreement between people and their government. This idea says that people are inherently bad and need a strong ruler to be in total control.
What is The Social Contract?
100
A meeting hosted mostly by women where enlightenment ideas were discussed.
What is a salon?
100
The war fought between the Britain and France that took place in America in 1754.
What is the French and Indian War?
100
In general, philosophes believed in which of the following:
A. Expanding women's rights
B. Reason
C. Social Contracts
D. All of the above
What is D. All of the above?
200
Trial by jury, speedy trial, be able to call witnesses are examples of this principle.
What is due process of law?
200
He believed that people are born with 3 natural rights: life liberty and property.
Who is John Locke?
200
A large set of books to which many Enlightenment thinkers contributed articles and which contributed to the spread of the Enlightenment.
What is Diderot's Encyclopedia?
200
A political leader during the Second Continental Congress and the author of the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
200
Another name for the Enlightenment.
What is age of reason?
300
The Magna Carta said the King had to share power with this group.
Who are the barons? (Lords, bishops, aristocracy are acceptable.)
300
A French philosophe who used satire in his writing to criticize his opponents. His views on freedom of speech and religious tolerance were the basis of our first amendment.
Who is Voltaire?
300
New style of art that emerged during the Enlightenment that is characterized by simplicity and elegance and borrowed style from classic Greek and Roman art.
What is Neoclassical?
300
A governmental system in which power is divided between the federal and state governments.
What is the federal system?
300
This type of artistic style was "grand" and "ornate"
What is Baroque?
400
This body/chamber in England makes the laws.
What is parliament?
400
He believed in the separation of governmental powers in order to prevent one person or group from becoming too powerful. This is the basis for our three branches of government.
Who is the Baron de Montesquieu?
400
Monarchs who embraced new enlightened ideas and made reforms that reflected the Enlightenment spirit.
What are Enlightened Despots?
400
The first ten amendments formally added to the United States Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
400
This was the center of the Enlightenment.
What is France or Europe?
500
The type of the government in which there is a parliament and a monarchy, but the monarchy was little or no power.
What is constitutional monarchy?
500
Who created the encyclopedia?
Who is Denis Diderot?
500
A famous enlightened despot who was ruler of Russia from 1762 to 1796. She allowed more freedom of speech and religious tolerance.
Who is Catherine the Great?
500
A tax imposed on the colonies by Britain for official stamps on legal documents.
What is The Stamp Act?
500
As a result of the Glorious Revolution, what document did King William and Queen Mary agree to follow.