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| 8275306226 | Locke | had a positive view of humans, all people have natural rights and it's the job of government to protect these, government's power comes from people |  | 0 |
| 8275306227 | Voltaire | fought for freedom of religion, tolerance, and speech |  | 1 |
| 8275306228 | Rousseau | thought direct-democracy was best, it's the free will of individuals to establish their government |  | 2 |
| 8275306229 | Montesquieu | advocated separation of power would prevent one person from gaining too much power |  | 3 |
| 8275306230 | Hobbes | believed that people are naturally evil and selfish, an absolute monarchy is necessary to keep society under control |  | 4 |
| 8275306231 | natural rights | people are born with certain rights, life, liberty, and property that no government can take from you |  | 5 |
| 8275306232 | absolute monarchy | The king has power over everyone including the economy, religion, social, and political characteristics of a country |  | 6 |
| 8275306233 | divine right | The King rules by God's will |  | 7 |
| 8275306234 | Separation of Powers | The assignment of executive, legislative, and judicial powers to different groups of official power |  | 8 |
| 8275306235 | Salon | A social gathering of intellectuals and artist, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in paris and other European cities during the enlightenment |  | 9 |
| 8275306236 | scientific method | a step-by-step process of discovery requiring the collection of accurately measured data |  | 10 |
| 8275306237 | social contract | Rousseau's proposal for an organized society in which people enter into an agreement accepting a powerful government in exchange for their freedom |  | 11 |
| 8275306238 | philosophes | French thinkers who believed that the use of reason could lead to reforms of government, law, and society |  | 12 |
| 8275306239 | What did Mary Wollstonecraft believe in? | Women's rights, equal education, equal pay |  | 13 |
| 8275306240 | The Enlightenment (define). | A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought. |  | 14 |
| 8275306241 | Effect of the Enlightenment ideas on outside groups | Helped inspire revolutions in the American colonies and France |  | 15 |
| 8275306242 | How did Enlightenment ideas spread? | Salons, pamphlets, Encyclopedie |  | 16 |
| 8275306243 | Feminist | a person who believes that men and women should have equal rights and opportunities |  | 17 |
| 8275306244 | Montesquieu | Wrote "The Spirit of the Laws"; tried to use scientific method to find natural laws that govern the social and political relationships of human beings; identified 3 types of governments: republics, despotism, and monarchies; invented separation of powers | 18 | |
| 8275306245 | Rousseau | Believed people in their natural state were basically good but that they were corrupted by the evils of society, especially the uneven distribution of property, wrote "The Social Contract" | 19 | |
| 8275306246 | Voltaire | (1694-1778) French philosopher. "Father of the Enlightenment" He believed that freedom of speech was the best weapon against bad government. He also spoke out against the corruption of the French government, and the intolerance of the Catholic Church. Perhaps greatest Enlightenment thinker. He said: "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" | 20 | |
| 8275306247 | Diderot | (1713-1784) The chief editor of the Encyclopedia published between 1751-1772. Said that "All things must be examined, debated, investigated without exception and without regard to one's feelings." and "We will speak against senseless laws until they are reformed; and, while we wait, we will abide by them." | 21 |
