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- 2. the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizen's basic rights and freedoms.
- 9. A logical procedure for gathering information about the natural world, in which experimentation and observations are used to test hypothesis.
- 10. Great English scientist who helped to create a single theory of motion.
- 11. Measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others.
- 13. One of the 18th century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects.
- 14. A philosopher who believed that people could learn from experience and improve themselves. He wanted them to govern their own affairs and to look after the welfare of society.
- 15. Was another influential French writer. He devoted himself to the study of political liberty and believed that Britain was the best-governed and most politically balanced country of his own day. He also called the division of power among different branches separation of powers.
- 16. The ruler most admired by philosophes. SHe ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796. She ruled with absolute authority, but also sought to reform Russia.
- 22. A statement of the reasons for the American colonies' break with Britain, approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
- 23. was committed to the idea of individual freedom.
- 24. A group of social thinkers in France during the Enlightenment.
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- 1. Was probably the most brilliant and influential philosophies. He never stopped fighting for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.
- 3. The agreement by which people define and limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society or government.
- 4. Relating to a simple, elegant style (based on ideas and themes from ancient Greece and Rome) that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s.
- 5. An 18th-century European movement to apply the principals of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society.
- 6. The idea that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.
- 7. Argued that women, like men, need education to become virtuous and useful. She also urged women to enter the male-dominated fields of medicine and politics.
- 8. Relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s.
- 12. The idea that the earth is the center of the universe.
- 17. An Italian Scientist, built on new theories about astronomy.
- 18. A political leader who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
- 19. Was a new way of thinking about the natural world.
- 20. A social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment.
- 21. A system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states.