Chapter 17 Flashcards
Rules Discoverable by reason that govern scientific forces (example: Gravity)
Natural Laws
Thought people were crude, greedy, and selfish; wrote the Leviathan
Thomas Hobbes
thought people deserved Life Liberty Property optimistic
Wrote Treatises of government if government fails to protect the people’s natural rights then th people have the right to overthrow the government
John Locke
an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each
Social Contract
Natural rights
Rights a person is born with, like life, liberty, property
one of the deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the 18th century French Enlightenment
Philosophes
Wrote THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS
THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT LIBERTY IS TO DIVIDE UP THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT INTO BRANCHES
Montesquieu
is the most famous of the philosophes
Voltaire
produced the ENCYCLOPEDIA, a 28- volume set of books filled with articles written by enlightenment thinkers of the day.
Diderot
Wrote the social contract
Rousseau
a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action
Laissez Faire
Wrote THE WEALTH OF THE NATIONS
Supply and demand
Adam Smith
the restricting of access to ideas and information
Censorship
Informal social gatherings
Salons
Art
Grand and ornate, glorified battle and the lives of the saints.
Baroque Art
Art
Light, elegant, charming, encouraged the imagination.
Rococo Art
freed from ignorance and misinformation a ruler with absolute power and authority
most radical of these
enlightened despots. Joseph II
King of Prussia from 1740-1786
Frederick the Great
Empress of Russia who increased the empire greatly; Enlightenment despot
Catherine the Great
most radical of the enlightened despots.
Joseph II
wanted to assert his power in the colonies.
King George III
import tax on any paper goods
Stamp Act
Continental army was led by
George Washington
Wrote most of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
all power comes from the people
Popular sovereignty
Surrender of the British Army in
Yorktown, Virginia
Ended war
Treaty of Paris
Father of the Constitution
James Madison
Tried to appeal the Stamp Act
Benjamin Franklin
Power divided between the Federal, National and state
Federal Republic
Explain and compare the views of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke
Thomas Hobbes thinks people are crude greedy and selfish
Leviathan- proposed a “social contract” where people give up their freedom for the privilege of an organized society. John Locke things people deserve Life Liberty Property optimistic
Treatises of government if government fails to protect the people’s natural rights then th people have the right to overthrow the government
How might the outcome of the American Revolution been different if France hadn’t participated?
Great Britain would have won and the would be no US and no constitution or anything like that. We would not have advanced. We would not be the great country we are today. We would be an okay country but Great Britain would’ve been the US. They would be advanced have all the cool electronics and stuff.
What was the protest used by the colonists and what did it mean
They were protesting against the stamp act. It raised the taxes on paper products. Paper was pretty much in everything that the colonists used. They had to pay higher taxes for the newspaper, stamps, and etc. It meant they were going to be firm and stick up for what they thought was right.
