Chapter 2

Question 0

Natural law

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Laws that already exist within nature

Question 1

Enlightenment

Answer 1

Period of time where new ideas were brought up

Question 2

Thomas Hobbes

Answer 2

Believed that people cannot be trusted and wanted an absolute monarch

Question 3

Social Contract

Answer 3

An agreement where people gave their freedom to be part of an organized society

Question 4

Natural rights

Answer 4

Rights that belong to people from birth

Question 5

Philosphe

Answer 5

Enlightenment thinkers who implemented their ideas into types of governments

Question 6

Montesquieu

Answer 6

Believed that the powers of government should be split into three branches: legislative, executive, and judicial

Question 7

Voltaire

Answer 7

Fought for political and religious freedom

Question 8

Diderot

Answer 8

Wrote the encyclopedia

Question 9

Mary Wollstonecraft

Answer 9

Fought for women’s rights during the Enlightenment

Question 10

Rousseau

Answer 10

Believed that people are naturally good but needed minimal control

Question 11

Physiocrat

Answer 11

Enlightenment thinkers who based their thoughts on natural laws

Question 12

Adam Smith

Answer 12

Argued in favor of the Laissez-faire policy

Question 13

Laissez-faire

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Policy where government cannot interfere with production

Question 14

Censorship

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The loss of freedom of speech

Question 15

Salons

Answer 15

Secret meeting where Enlightenment thinkers exchange their ideas

Question 16

Enlightenment despots

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Rulers that began to implement Enlightenment ideas

Question 17

Thomas Jefferson

Answer 17

Wrote the Declaration of Independence

Question 18

Declaration of Independence

Answer 18

Document that includes John Locke’s ideas to protect people natural rights

Question 19

Popular Sovereignty

Answer 19

States that the governments power comes from the people

Question 20

United States Bill of Rights

Answer 20

The first ten amendments to the constitution