Chapter 22 Flashcards
Declaration of Independence
Famous document by Thomas Jefferson
Enlightenment ideas
Progress, secularism, individuality
Ideas that influenced the American Revolution
John Locke
Absolute monarchs in enlightenment ideas
Some tried, most got rejected
Voltaire
Most brilliant and influential philosopher Francois Marie Arouet
Toleration, freedom of speech, religion
Montesquieu
Checks and balances -kept different branches of government equal French writer
Locke
Self governing, modern democracy, against absolute monarchs
Locked ideas
Life liberty property
Women’s contributions to enlightening
Mary Astel- lack of education unequal relationship between men and woman
Mary Woilstonecraft- Women’s education as important to men. Enter fields of medicine and politics (dominated by men)