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What laid the foundation for the Enlightenment? | Scientific Revolution |
What disease was a vaccine found for at the beginning of the Enlightenment? | Small Pox |
Who found the vaccine for small pox? | Edward Jenner |
Natural Laws | rules discoverable by reason that governed certain forces |
What was the favorite word of intellects? | Reason |
Who was the first to use the term Enlightenment? | Kant |
People were naturally evil, cruel and selfish | Hobbes |
According to Hobbes what was the social contract? | an agreement by which they gave up their freedom for an organized society |
What type of government did Hobbes promote? | Monarchy |
Natural Rights | rights that belonged to all humans from birth |
What are people's 3 natural rights? | Life, Liberty, Property |
Believed in the consent of the governed | Locke |
What was people's responsibility if the government did not uphold their rights? | If the government fails that obligation people have the right to revolt |
What three Americans used the ideas of the Enlightenment in the Constitution? | Franklin, Madison, Jefferson |
Believed in 3 branches of government, separation of powers and checks and balances | Monttesquieu |
Supporter of religious freedom, freedom of speech, and critic of the slave trade | Voltaire and Diderot |
Very good writer and would use his pen to insult people | Votaire |
Wrote the first encyclopedia | Diderot |
Believed in equal education | Diderot |
People were naturally good, but easily corrupted by evil | Rousseau |
The good of the community should be put above individual interests | Rousseau's idea of social contract |
Believed in the equality of man | Rousseau |
Rousseau and Voltaire were friends | False |
allow business to operate with little or no government interference. | laissez faire |
Wrote about the economic idea of capitalism | Adam Smith |
Government had 3 basic roles | protect society from invasion, defend citizens from injustice, keep up certain public works. |
restricting access to ideas and information | censorship |
informal social gathering, to discuss ideas | salons |