People are reasonable and good; favored self-government. Natural rights are life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
100
Informal social gathering at which writers, artists, and philosophes exchanged ideas
What is a salon?
100
Scientist who discovered the law of gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
100
The theory that the Earth revolves around the sun.
What is the Heliocentric theory?
100
This man wrote the Declaration of Independence.
Thomas Jefferson
200
Believed in separation of powers and checks and balances.
Who is Montesquieu?
200
A system which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while maintaining their full royal powers.
What are enlightened despots?
200
Gabriel Fahrenheit and Anders Celsius worked to create the first one of these.
What is the thermometer?
200
The theory that the earth is the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
200
A famous phrase used to represent the resentment Americans had for the British not allowing colonists seats in Parliament.
What is "No taxation without representation"?
300
Freedom of religion, speech, thought, and expression; separation of church and state.
Who is Voltaire?
300
Name an example of an enlightened ruler.
Who is Catherine the Great, Joseph II, or Frederick the Great?
300
The man who developed the heliocentric theory.
Who is Copernicus?
300
Rights that belongs to all humans from birth.
What are natural rights?
300
The Declaration of Independence clearly reflects the ideas of this Enlightened thinker.
Who is John Locke?
400
Laissez-faire economics, and believed the three roles of government were protection from outsiders (army), protection from each other (police), and to provide public works (roads).
Who is Adam Smith?
400
The editor of the Encyclopedia
Who is Denis Diderot?
400
Name one of the two scientists that backed up Copernicus in believing the heliocentric theory.
Who is Kepler, or who is Galileo?
400
Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos.
What is the social contract?
400
The first 10 amendments to the United States Constitution
What is the Bill of Rights?
500
A person accused of a crime has right to a speedy trial; torture is wrong, and punishment should be based on the crime.
Who is Beccaria?
500
Name a famous composers of music during the Enlightenment.
Who is Bach, Mozart, or Handel?
500
Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes developed this procedure for collecting and analyzing evidence.
What is the Scientific Method?
500
Policy allowing businesses to operate with little or no government interference
What is laissez-faire?
500
The formal agreement that ended the war between the British and the colonists