Famous Thinkers
He believed people possessed natural rights, such as life, liberty, and land.
Who is John Locke?
This was the period that came right before the Age of Enlightenment where science became more developed.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
A person who thinks about, questions, and studies the nature of life, truth, knowledge, and other important human matters
Who is a Philosopher?
The Age of Enlightenment is also known as this.
What is the Age of Reason?
Enlightenment ideas led to a revolution in this country and freedom from Britain.
What is the United States?
Who is Voltaire?
This approach to gathering and testing ideas through experiments emerged during the Scientific Revolution.
What is the scientific method?
Women in Paris hosted these events to spread enlightenment ideas.
What are salons?
This queen of Russia adopted Enlightenment ideas in the way she ruled.
Who is Catherine the Great?
Our government still runs on this idea, which includes the concept of checks and balances.
What is separation of powers?
He was committed to the idea of equality and following the "general will" of the social contract.
Who is Rousseau?
According to the Catholic Church, what was at the center of the Universe?
What is the Earth?
This refers to people who work for a church; In the Catholic Church these include the Pope, bishops, and priests
What is the clergy?
One important American document based on Enlightenment ideas.
What is the Declaration of Independence or the Constitution?
According to this Enlightenment idea, there should be no racism, sexism, etc.
What is equality?
This philosopher believed that people with power tend to abuse it, which is why we need separation of power.
Who is Montesquieu?
The name of Copernicus' theory that the planets orbit the sun.
What is heliocentric?
This invention helped lead to the Enlightenment by allowing ideas to spread quickly.
What is the Printing Press?
This referred to the belief that an absolute monarch's authority to rule came directly from God
What is Divine Right?
What is the 1st amendment?
This philosopher believed that the people have the right to take power away from government when power is being abused.
Who is John Locke?
Galileo got in trouble with this group/institution for promoting the idea that the planets moved around the sun.
What is the Catholic Church?
What are Women's Rights and the Abolitionist movements?
Monarchs who adopted Enlightenment ideas were known as this.
What are Enlightened Despots?
One moment in U.S. history where the people exercised their power to break free from an "unjust" government.
What is the Civil War or the American Revolution?