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| The Scientific Revolution held that everything in the world and universe could be explained by these: | natural laws |
| The Scientific Revolution held that the natural laws governing the universe could be discovered by using this: | reason |
| What "reason" means: | Show me, don't tell me. Prove it, don't tell me to just have faith. |
| Enlightenment thinker who wrote of people's natural rights, such as life, liberty and property. | John Locke ("Locke" in your rights - hold them tight!) |
| This French Enlightenment thinker fought for freedom of religion, speech and reason. He heavily influences our 1st Amendment freedoms. | Voltaire |
| Enlightenment thinker who thought the best government would be one with separated powers so that one part can stop the others from being too powerful (led to our three branches of govt.) | Montesquieu |
| Italian Enlightenment thinker who focused on how the criminal justice system should be fair and free of torture. | Cesare Beccaria |
| Scottish economist who first wrote of capitalism, the economic system the United States uses. | Adam Smith |
| She wrote that women are not inferior to men - they just aren't allowed to be educated. | Mary Wollstonecraft |
| He was editor of the first Encyclopedia who helped spread Enlightenment ideas as a writer. | Denis Diderot |
| He said "Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains." | Rousseau |
| He said that the purpose of government is to protect the people's rights - and if they don't do that, the people should overthrow the government. | John Locke |
| What is the "invisible hand" in economics? | competition |
| Christians who believe in God and morality, but do not accept anything in the Bible that is not scientifically possible or explainable. | Deists |
| This is the idea that rulers should rule with the people's permission, and that they should protect the rights of people. | Social Contract |
| Writer of the Declaration of Independence | Thomas Jefferson |
| Ideas from this philosopher appear throughout the Declaration of Independence: | John Locke |
| What the United States did that was such a huge deal: | It created the first democracy since Ancient Rome, and used many of the ideas of the Enlightenment philosophers. |
| France's First Estate was made up of: | Clergy |
| France's Second Estate was made up of: | Nobles |
| France's Third Estate was made up of: | Commoners, peasants, educated merchants |
| French word for successful, educated middle class people. | bourgeoisie |
| Percentage of taxes that the French Third Estate paid: | 98% |
| Problem that France's Third Estate had with their government: | They had little say in government, but had to pay almost all of the taxes |
| France's King during the French Revolution: | King Louis XVI |
| Why did King Louis call together the Three Estates for a meeting? | France was broke and needed to raise taxes. |
| Why was France broke? | They spent a lot of money helping the American colonists beat England in the Revolutionary War. |
| This was a congress of the three estates in France that hardly ever met together: | Estates General |
