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Enlightenment
Enlightenment Vocabulary
100

Name the 3 branches of government

Legislative, Executive, Judicial

100
Believed that if a government did not protect the natural rights of life, liberty, and property, citizens could replace their government
What is John Locke
100

A period of time in which philosophers questioned absolute monarchs

What is the Enlightenment?

100

What is a philosher?

A person who questions the way thinks work/ things are done

200

The traditional authorities before the Enlightenment were:

What were the church and absolute monarchs?

200
Believed that government should be separated into three branches, the executive, legislative, and judicial, to provide checks and balances.
What is Montesquieu
200

King Louis XIV "The Sun King" was an example of an ______

Absolute Monarch

200

What is liberty?

Freedom

300

The fundamental purpose of government

What is the protection of the natural rights of people?

300

Believed in equal rights for men and women

Mary Wollstonecraft

300

Increased ______ helped spread Enlightenment ideas all over the world

Literacy

300

the idea that government should be divided among various individuals or institutions

Separation of powers

400

Catherine the Great is a example of an _____

Enlightened Monarch

400
Enlightenment thinker whose concept of a social contract says that a democracy would express the general will of the people
What is Rousseau
400
The immediate roots of the Enlightenement can be found in this. It is also the time when Isaac Newton applied rational analysis to nature leading to the discovery of natural laws
What is the scientific revolution
400

People give up some freedom and in return their government protects their individual liberties 

What is Social Contract Theory?

500

Who said the following quote: "I may not agree with what you have to say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it"

Voltaire

500

Enlightenment thinker who wanted religious tolerance and free speech.

Voltaire.

500
The enlightenment was shaped by this, which was a time when reformers questioned the authority of the Roman Catholic church and argued that individuals should think for themselves.
What is the protestant reformation
500

The justification for the rulers to have absolute power that says power comes from God.

Divine right