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Intellectual movembent of the 17th & 18th centuries.
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Enlightenment
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The Enlightenment celebrated the powers of ______.
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Human Reason
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Enlightenment thinkers promoted religious ____________.
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toleration
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Enlightenment thinkers sought to construct government free of_____________.
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tyranny
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Enlightenment thinkers believed all problem could be solved with__________.
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reason
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The Enlightenment was prompted by the __________ (1500s & 1600s).
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Scientific Revolution
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Hobbes, Locke& Rousseau were all considered _________.
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social contract theorists
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Because Thomas Hobbes believed governments were created to protect people from their own selfishness he believed they _______..
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never had the right to revolt.
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Form of Gorernment advocated by Thomas Hobbes.
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Absolute Monarchy
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He believed people had Natural Rights to life, liberty and property.
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John Locke
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John Locke believed the foundation of Government was a __________.
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Social Contract
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John Locke Believed that if people's natural rights were not protected they had the_________.
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Right to revolt
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John Locke wrote in defense of the___________.
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Glorious Revolution
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French Thinkers of the enlightenment.
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Philosophes(not philosophers)
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Philosophe who campaigned against intolerance. (wrote Candide).
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Voltaire
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He combined enlightenment thinking into an Encyclopdia.
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Diderot
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Banned Diderot's Encyclopedia.
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Catholic Church
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Diderot was _________ for his writings in the Encyclopedia.
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imprisoned
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Advocated a free market economy in the Wealth of Nations.
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Adam Smith
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Name for complete free market economy (leave it alone).
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Laissez faire
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He believed the best way to protect people's liberties was by separating the power of government into legislative, executive and judicial branches.
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Montesquieu
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Criticized the enlightenment's excessive emphasis on reason, he believed people needed to rely more on and instinct.
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Rousseau
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Meetings for the discussion of ideas.
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Salons
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He believed that reason could not be used to explain questions of metaphysics.
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Immanuel Kant
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Tries to answer ultimate and universal questions.
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Metaphysics
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Kant believed that things that cannot be perceived in ________ cannot be known.
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experience
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John Locke believed the mind to be a __________.
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Tabula rasa(blank slate)
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Religion based on reason and natural law, the Enlightenment's religion.
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Deism
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Belief that God started the universe like a perfect clock and then left it alone.
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Deism
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Some people reacted to Enlightenment and did not believe that _________ could explain the universe.
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reason alone
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Monarchs who used their power to bring about positive political and social changes.
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Enlightened Despots
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When Britain tried to tighten its control over the colonies after the French and Indian War, the colonies _____.
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reacted
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Because the American colonists believed they were being taxed without their representation and thus denied their natural rights they ___.
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declared their independence.
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Created a government with Montesquieu's separation of powers and a federal system.
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U.S. Constitution
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Governmental power (sovereignty) is divided between a central government and regional governments.
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Federalism
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