Ap Euro Unit #3

4. A group of economists who urged the French government to deregulate the grain trade and make the tax system more equitable to encourage agricultural productivity. Claimed guilds should be abolished in order to establish a free market and strongly influenced Adam Smith.
5. gatherings in which intellectual and political ideas were exchanged during the Enlightenment
7. one of the 18th century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects
9. Victorian era, public libraries where books may be borrowed and taken away for a short period
10. God is a watchmaker; The religion of the Enlightenment (1700s). Followers believed that God existed and had created the world, but that afterwards He left it to run by its own natural laws.

1. A phrase describing the phenomenon of increased correspondence in the form of letters exchanged between the influential philosophers and other thinkers during the Age of Enlightenment.
2. Policy that government should interfere as little as possible in the nation's economy.
3. Writers during the Enlightenment and who popularized the new ideas of the time.
6. Enlightenment thinkers envisioned a "republic of science" for the newly freed American colonies; in which idea would be exchanged freely and useful knowledge would improve the life of all citizens.
8. John Locke's concept of the mind as a blank sheet ultimately bombarded by sense impressions that, aided by human reasoning, formulate ideas.