A | B |
wrote the social contract, believed morals regressed and society progressed | Jean Jacques Rousseau |
Came up with the ideas of the Seperation of Powers,that would inflence Am. Rev | Montesequeiu |
Disagreed with Capital Punishment and torture | Cesare Becarria |
writer who advocated for women's rights | Mary Wollstonecraft |
Place where brilliant minds would come discuss everything from politics to relgion | salons |
believed humans were selfish and wicked, wrote the Levianthan | Thomas Hobbes |
advocated for religious toleration, freedom of speech, wrote Candide | Voltaire |
theory stated by Copernicus that the earth moved around the sun | Heliocentric theory |
built his own telescope to view stars, was brought to trial for his controversial book | Galileo |
Explained the law of gravity, stated that God was a clocksetter | Issac Newton |
Religion in which people believed God had no interference on peoples live, he was a clockmaker | deism |
revolutionary procedure for gathering and testing data | scientific method |
Stated "I think therefore I am" | Renes Des cartes |
social event that made people question their surroundings | scientific revolution |
Convinced the French to go to war on the side of the Colonists against Britain | Ben Franklin |
war between the British and Am. colonists | American Revolution |
War between the French and the British colonists/british | French and Indian war |
philsopher who stated people had natural rights of life, liberty and property | John Locke |
First ten amendments of our constitution that was influenced by philsophers | bill of rights |
agreement between the government and its people | social contract |
act passed by British parliament that taxed Americans after the Fr/Indian war | Stamp ACT |
Monarchs who were influenced by the enlightenment were called? | Enlightened Despots |
area in social life where people made their opinions known about society and about the faults/good things about govt | public sphere |
ways in which the enlightenment spread across europe | pamphlets, books, speeches, etc |
why were many philsophers jailed? | Criticism of Catholic Church and monarchy |
5 beliefs of philsophes | nature, reason, happiness,progress, liberty |
French thinkers who believed they could apply reason to any problem | philsophes |
two things that the enlightenment questioned | religion, government |
which 3 rulers were the main enlightened despots? | Frederick the great, Catherine the great, Joseph II |
Who won the Fr/Indian War | colonists/british |