The Enlightenment Vocabulary

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Across
  1. 3. Personal, elegant style of art and architecture made popular during the mid-1700s that featured designs with the shapes of leaves, shells, and flowers
  2. 5. Unchanging principle, discovered through reason, that governs human conduct
  3. 6. Rights that belong to all humans from birth, such as life, liberty, and property
  4. 8. Policy allowing business to operate with little or no government interference
  5. 10. An agreement by which people gave up their freedom to a powerful government in order to avoid chaos
  6. 11. Ornate style of art and architecture popular in the 1600s and 1700s
Down
  1. 1. Market regulated by the natural laws of supply and demand
  2. 2. French for "philosopher"; French thinker who desired reform in society during the Enlightenment
  3. 4. Restriction on access to ideas and information
  4. 7. Informal social gathering at which writers, artists, philosophes, and others exchanged ideas
  5. 9. Absolute ruler who uses his or her power to bring about political and social change