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cause and effect
who was it?
Enlightenment and religion
100

true or false. The age of enlightenment brought new ideas about governmental rights and the government's level of control over the people.

False 

100

what was the result of the Thirty Years war

the result was that more people started to question what kind of society they wanted.
100

who wrote the book "A Treatise of Human Nature"?

David Hume 

100

what French writer believed in god but did not belong to any religion?

voltaire(Francis Marie Arouet)

200

True or False. voting started in the enlightenment period

True

200

what happened when Issac Newton wrote a book called "Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy" 

Issac Newton became famous but is remembered to  have always stayed  humble

200

who wrote "A Discourse on the arts and Sciences": which talked about how science and arts caused corruption of virtue and mortality?

Jean Jacques Rousseau

200

what major action of religion  came from the Enlightenment times?

religious toleration, and freedom of religion, and human rights

300

True or False. Voltaire was a lawyer, politician, and a farmer.

False that was Thomas Jefferson

300

what happened when voltaire started to fight against laws that could imprison people without trial and was against slavery?

Voltaire got arrested but never gave up on his beliefs 

300

Who promoted the ideas of the social contract and the separation of church and state?

John Locke

300

Whos discoveries threatened the powerful roman catholic church? 

Galileo's discoveries said the opposite of what the church said but no matter what had happened with the church nothing destroyed his impact on science.

400

True or false. Adam Smith was a philosopher at Glasgow university

True but he later left that job

400

What was the French Revolution caused by?

The French Revolution was caused when French subjects marched into the king's palace angry because they wanted freedom of the press, speech, and religion.

400

who argued against the regulation of commerce and trade?

Adam Smith 

400

what was made so that people could not be arrested for expressing religious or political beliefs?

The Habeas corpus act of 1679

500

True or false. John Locke was a philospher.

True he was an enlightenment philosopher

500

what was the American Revolution caused by?

The American Revolution was caused when the British were ruling the American colonists but the American colonists thought they had the right to have their own  government
500
Who made the government's system of checks and balances to make sure that each branch does not become more powerful than the others?

Baron De Montesquieu

500

who is best know for their religious music 

Handel was best known for his religious music and appealed to many people