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Dates

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1750-1850

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Age of Reason led to new generation of ______

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Philosophers

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Age of Reason dates

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1600s

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Time of optimism

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Enlightenment

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5
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Where did the Enlightenment begin?

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France

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_____and ____ as basis of authority for all decisions

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Reason and logic

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Who were influenced by Enlightenment Ideals?

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US Founding Fathers
- US Bill of RIghts
- Separation of church and state

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Age of Enlightenment heavily influenced by ____________ Revolution

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Scientific

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Who were Philosophes

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Not original, but great PUBLICISTS of new thinking

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Wrote Leviathan

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Hobbes

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith,
Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Wrote Social Contract

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Rousseau

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Believed in Divine Right

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Sun King and Virgin Queen

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Settled religious tension between Catholics and Protestants

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Virgin Queen

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Philosophers saw her as the Enlightened ruler

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Virgin Queen

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Proper education will solve all problems

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Wollstonecraft

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Checks and balances are necessary; people needed to safeguard government

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Montesquieu

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Argued that social order should be determined by reason not gender

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Wollstonecraft

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Humans should pursue self interest

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Adam Smith

19
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Montesquieu three types of governments

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Monarches: guided by honor
Republics: guided by virtue
Despotisms: guided by fear

20
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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Social Contract: Government needs people’s help

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Social Contract: people have no right to rebel

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Opposed to censorship

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Freedom of religion

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Voltaire, Locke

24
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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Wrote two treaties of governnment

25
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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Modern technology made people too dependent

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Lived through English civil war

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Noble savage

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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Man served his own good by serving common good

29
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(Hobbes, Rousseau, Locke, Voltaire, Sun King, Montesquieu, Adam Smith, Wollstonecraft, or Queen Elizabeth I [virgin queen],)

Right to fair trial

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