The Enlightenment thinker who edited and wrote the Encyclopedia
Who is Denis Diderot?
100
A thinker who applied the methods of science to understand and improve society
What is a philosophe?
100
An enlightened despot
What is a ruler who influenced political and social change?
100
The Enlightenment thinker who created the system of checks and balances
Who is Montesquieu?
100
Light and delicate artistic style popular during the reign of Louis XV
What is rococo style?
200
Author who battled corruption, injustice, and inequality and defended freedom of speech
Who was Voltaire?
200
Informal social gathering at where people exchanged Enlightenment ideas
What is a salon?
200
Prussian ruler who saw themselves as a "servant of the state", reorganized the civil service, and simplified laws
Who was Frederick the Great?
200
Rousseau's belief in the positive aspects of people and the good of the community as a whole over individual interests
What is the "general will"?
200
What Mary Wollstonecraft argued in her book A Vindication of the Rights of Woman
What is that women and men should have equal educations and equal rights?
300
Enlightenment thinker who believed the point of justice was to preserve social order, not to avenge crimes - so trials should be speedy, punishment should fit the crime, and torture should not be used.
Who is Cesare Beccaria?
300
Rights that are given to a person from birth
What are natural rights?
300
Austrian ruler who traveled in disguise among his people, allowed freedom of the press, and wanted religious equality for Protestants and Jews as well as Catholics
Who was Joseph II?
300
The principle that all government power comes from the people
What is popular sovereignty?
300
Why Enlightenment writers faced censorship
What is they challenged the old order and did not support traditional ideas so the church and government were often against them?
400
What Enlightenment thinker argued that the purpose of government is to safeguard the natural rights of the people
Who is John Locke?
400
Rules that are discoverable by reason
What are natural laws?
400
Russian ruler who corresponded with Voltaire and Diderot, but made limited reforms
Who was Catherine the Great?
400
Executive, legislative, and judicial
What are Montesquieu's three branches of government?
400
How Enlightenment writers tried to avoid censorship
What is by disguising their ideas as fiction?
500
He argued that the forces of supply and demand in free market can regulate business activity
Who is Adam Smith?
500
The idea that business should operate with little or no government interference
What is laissez faire
500
Three ways in which Enlightenment ideas spread
What is in salons and coffee houses, by writing letters, by the Encyclopedia, by pamphlets, and by travel?
500
Enlightenment ideas that can be found in the Bill of Rights
What are natural rights and the rights to personal freedoms?
500
The new musical style that was created during the Enlightenment