Enlightenment

3. A body of laws believed to be inherent in nature and discoverable through human reason
5. An economic term meaning "let it happen," advocating for humans to have the freedom to make economic decisions
8. The French playwright who authored the Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen
10. The 1688 political event in England that replaced King James and helped spark Enlightenment political ideas
11. Private gatherings where thinkers met to discuss new ideas and listen to readings of works
12. The philosopher who argued that government should be a contract between people and their ruler
13. A former enslaved laborer and sailor who became a prominent voice for the abolition of slavery
16. The political idea that government power comes from an agreement rather than divine will
17. The revolutionary pamphleteer and author of Rights of Man (179
18. The intellectual who wrote a "Vindication" calling for universal education for women in 1792
19. The author of The Wealth of Nations (1776) who described stages of societal development

1. The radical thinker who wrote The Social Contract and declared that the right of slavery is "null and void"
2. The social context of the eighteenth century characterized by the rise of open-mindedness and public conversation
4. The collective name for the leading philosophical, political, and social writers of the French Enlightenment
6. The act of doing away with something, particularly the movement to end the slave trade and slavery
7. The scientist whose 1687 work, Principia, introduced "rational mechanics" and the search for universal laws
9. A period of rapid intellectual change between the late seventeenth and late eighteenth centuries
14. The German philosopher who defined the movement with the command, "Dare to know!"
15. A competitive economic system rooted in Enlightenment ideas of private property and free markets