The Enlightenment

2. a period of artistic style.
5. a person who offers views on profound questions in ethics, metaphysics, logic and other related fields.
7. father of the constitution.
8. allows businesses to operate with very little interference from the government.
11. french philosopher who wrote the book the social contract.
15. style of composition arising on 18th centuary france.
16. french enlightenment writer, his attacks on the established catholic church, and his advocacy of freedom of religion, freedom of expression, and seperation of church and state.
17. a period of time in which people applied reasons to everyday things and started thinking for themselves.
18. aurged that peoople were cruel and selfish by nature and needed to be controlled by an absolute monarch.
20. scottish philosopher who focused on using natural law to reform the economy and aurged the policy of laissez faire.
22. an agreement made by the people to give up their freedom in exchange for an organized society.

1. suppression of the public speech or other public communications, which was done by burning and banning books as well as jailing the others in the enlightenment age.
3. principle author of the decleration of independence who believed in equality for all.
4. french enlightenment thinker.
6. french thinker who developed the ideas of seperation of powers, checks and balances and minority rights.
9. russian monarch
10. prussian monarch that allowed free press and urged religious tolerance.
12. a form of absolute monarcies that accepted enlightenment ideas.
13. rules that govern natural forces such as gravity.
14. informal social gatherings.
19. english philosopher that argued that people were good at theorized natural right, he rejected absolute monarchies.
21. austian monarch.