The Enlightenment

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  1. 3. contract an agreement made by people to give up their freedom in exchange for an organized society
  2. 6. Rousseau French philosopher who is often referred to as the father of the French revolution and wrote the book: The Social Contract
  3. 11. suppression of the public speech or other public communication, which was done by burning and banning books as well as jailing others in the enlightenment age
  4. 13. a period of artistic style that used exaggerated motion and clear, easily interpreted detail
  5. 15. French thinker who developed the ideas of separation of powers, checks and balances and minority rights
  6. 16. the Great Russian monarch that abolished torture
  7. 18. Locke English philosopher that argued that people were good and theorized natural right, he rejected absolute monarchies
  8. 20. Madison 4th president sometimes referred to as the father of the constitution.
  9. 21. the Great Prussian monarch that allowed free press and urged religious tolerance
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  1. 1. informal social gatherings
  2. 2. French enlightenment thinker
  3. 4. law rules that govern natural forces such as gravity
  4. 5. was a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and separation of church and state.
  5. 7. a period of time in which people applied reasons to everyday things and started thinking for themselves
  6. 8. style of composition arising in 18th-century France, often viewed as an extension of the baroque, and characterized by a high degree of ornamentation and lightness of expression.
  7. 9. II Austrian monarch that traveled in disguise among his subjects to learn of their problems
  8. 10. despot a form of absolute monarchy that accepted enlightenment ideas
  9. 12. smith Scottish philosopher who focused on using natural law to reform the economy and urged the policy of laissez faire
  10. 14. a person who offers views or theories on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic, and other related fields.
  11. 17. Hobbes English enlightenment thinker who argued that people were cruel and selfish by nature and needed to be controlled by an absolute monarchy
  12. 19. faire a policy that allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government