Enlightenment Thinkers & Absolute Monarchy

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  1. 4. Louis XIV (14th) was the most famous monarch with absolute power. He came from _______.
  2. 5. this is the last name of the man who disagreed with Hobbes about how much freedom people needed to give up in order to be safe
  3. 6. Social _______ is the way society is organized in place in order to keep the peace
  4. 8. cruel or oppressive government rule
  5. 11. The freedom of _____ includes the right to speak out against the government
  6. 12. Locke thought that all people were born with rights to life, liberty and _________
  7. 13. Popular __________ is the idea that the government should do the will of the people because the people are in charge of the government.
  8. 15. this is the last name of the Enlightenment thinker who liked kings and queens but agreed that the people needed some input on how government works
  9. 17. The kind of monarchy that several European countries adopted. One king or queen had almost total power in a government.
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  1. 1. This is the last name of the English Enlightenment thinker who wrote a lot about women’s rights. Some consider her to be the “mother of feminism.”
  2. 2. This is the last name of the Enlightenment thinker who insisted that the only need for government was to protect people’s natural rights.
  3. 3. __________ economics is the idea that the most productive economy is the one that is allowed to regulate itself without any unnecessary government intervention or rules
  4. 7. this is the name of our social contract in the USA
  5. 9. Voltaire believed that the appropriate relationship between governments and religion was the separation of _________
  6. 10. This is the last name of the French Enlightenment thinker who spoke out about women’s rights and also spoke out against slavery.
  7. 11. This is the last name of the Enlightenment thinker who is called the father of capitalism.
  8. 14. contract, an agreement between rulers and the people wherein the people agree to give up freedoms in order to achieve safety and peace
  9. 16. this is the name of the Enlightenment thinker who argued for the freedom of speech and religion