Enlightenment crossword

4. An agreement between the people and their government. the idea that people gave up their freedom for an organized society.
6. believed that people are born selfish and need a strong central authority. Absolute Monarchy.
11. Wrote books that exposed corrupt officials and aristocrats. He wrote against the slave trade and religious prejudice. He defended freedom of speech. TOLERANCE. Broke the church and state apart.
12. A basic principle of the American system of government that states that all government power comes from the people, and government can exist only with the consent of the governed. An important point in the Declaration.
13. Wrote the spirit of laws. Separation of powers, checks and balances.

1. the idea that all humans are born with rights, life, liberty, and property.
2. informal social gathering at which writers, artists, philosophies, and others exchanged ideas
3. A framer of the constitution and a leader in the colonists military who commanded battles in the war.
5. A law passed in 1765 by the British Parliament that imposed taxes on items such as newspapers and pamphlets in the American colonies; repealed in 1766.
7. ornate style of art and architecture popular in the 1600s and 1700s
8. restriction on access to ideas and information
9. an enlightened despot who reduced the use of torture, allowed free pass, simplified laws, had religious tolerance, and reorganized the the governments civil service
10. Virginia Location where the British army surrendered in the American Revolution forced by George Washington.