The Age of Enlightenment

Reduced torture, allowed a free press, religious freedom in Prussia.

The principle that the government's power can only exist with the consent of the governed.

Wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman. Education creates equality for women.

The movement in which philosophers developed new ideas about society and government.

An absolute ruler that implemented Enlightenment ideas into rule was a(n)...

Wrote The Spirit of the Laws. Argued for separation of powers.

Number 7.

What is the name of the social gatherings where Enlightenment ideas were discussed?

Wrote the Social Contract. Argued on behalf of the "general will" of the people.

Second Continental Congress

Number 5.

Supported religious equality, ended censorship, punished church for wrong doing in Austria.

Number 6.

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Example of an Enlightenment idea in the U.S. Constitution.

Exchanged letters with Diderot and Voltaire, abolished torture, religious toleration in Russia.

The government's purpose is to protect your natural rights.

Chief editor of the Encyclopedia.

Number 3.

Number 4.

Wrote Two Treatises of Government. People are reasonable, born with natural rights.

Examples of Enlightenment ideas in the U.S. Constitution.

Physiocrat who wrote The Wealth of Nations. Believed in laissez-faire economics.

Spent a lot of money helping the colonists fight the British during the Revolutionary War.

Number 1

Number 8.

In Laissez-Faire economics, the government...

Wrote Leviathan. Believed people are cruel, greedy and selfish, therefore require strong rule.

Wrote over 20,000 letters & 2,000 books. Jailed and exiled for criticizing the church and gov.

The rules of nature that can be discovered by reason.