Ch. 5 Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

Question 1

Natural law

Answer 1

Laws that govern human nature

Question 2

Natural rights

Answer 2

Rights that belong to all humans at birth

Question 3

Denis Diderot

Answer 3

Created the Encyclopedie to change the general way of thinking

Question 4

John Locke

Answer 4

Believed people are naturally good, are born with natural rights
Wrote, “Two Treatises of Government”

Question 5

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 5

Believed people are naturally selfish and enter into a social contract

Question 6

Adam Smith

Answer 6

Wrote “The Wealth of Nations”
Believed in a free market economy
father of capitalism

Question 7

Voltaire

Answer 7

French philosopher, believed in equality and freedom of speech

Question 8

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 8

Believed in equality for women

Wrote, “A Vindication of the Rights of Woman”

Question 9

Philosophes

Answer 9

A group of Enlightenment thinkers who believed using reason could change government, law, and society

Question 10

Salons

Answer 10

informal social gatherings where Enlightenment ideas were spread