Enlightment

Question 1

What 3 things were enlightenment about?

Answer 1

Coffe, kings, and ideas.

Question 2

Were the kings good or bad?

Answer 2

Bad

Question 3

When was the enlightenment?

Answer 3

The 17th and 18th century.

Question 4

Why was the enlightenment important?

Answer 4

It lead to global changes.

Question 5

What was the enlightenment?

Answer 5

European thinkers were attempting to solve every political, economical, and social problems to make their world a better place.

Question 6

Where was the Enlightenment?

Answer 6

Europe.

Question 7

What was the most common form of government in the world?

Answer 7

A monarchy.

Question 8

What is censorship?

Answer 8

Covering something up.

Question 9

What is treason?

Answer 9

Removing a leader from power.

Question 10

What does treason result in?

Answer 10

Execution.

Question 11

What did people risk from their radical ideas?

Answer 11

Death and/or censorship.

Question 12

What helped ideas spread so fast in the 17th century?

Answer 12

The printing press.

Question 13

What did Thomas Hobbes think?

Answer 13

People are cruel, greedy, selfish, and need to be controlled.

Question 14

What did Thomas Hobbes believe?

Answer 14

People should live by a social contract agreed upon by all.

Question 15

What did Thomas Hobbe favor?

Answer 15

An absolute monarchy.

Question 16

Who liked Locke’s ideas?

Answer 16

Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson.

Question 17

What did John Locke believe?

Answer 17

People were inherently good.

Question 18

What did John Locke believe people were entitled to?

Answer 18

Natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.

Question 19

What did John Locke believe was the best form of government?

Answer 19

One with limited power.

Question 20

Was Voltaire French?

Answer 20

Yes.

Question 21

What was Voltaire?

Answer 21

A philosopher.

Question 22

What did Voltaire do?

Answer 22

Through the pen, he blasted corrupt officials, economic inequalities, injustice, the slave trade, and religious prejudice.

Question 23

Who did Voltaire annoy?

Answer 23

The catholic church and the french governmnet.

Question 24

What happened to Voltaire?

Answer 24

His books were burned and he was imprisoned, then eventually exiled.

Question 25

Was Rosseau German?

Answer 25

No, he was French.

Question 26

What book did Rosseau write?

Answer 26

The social contract.

Question 27

What did Rosseau think about society?

Answer 27

They placed too many limitations on people’s behavior.

Question 28

What did Rosseau believe government should be like?

Answer 28

Only an elected government by people should impose such minimal rules.

Question 29

What was bad and gone from economics?

Answer 29

Mercantilism: Government regulation of the economy to balance trade.

Question 30

What was good and new in economics?

Answer 30

Laissez Faires ideas.

Question 31

What did Laissez Faire think people should do?

Answer 31

They should do as they please.

Question 32

How did Laissez Faire believe government should operate?

Answer 32

With little or no government interference.

Question 33

Was free trade good or bad?

Answer 33

Good.

Question 34

Were tariffs good or bad?

Answer 34

Bad.

Question 35

What did Adam Smith favor?

Answer 35

Laissezs Faires economics.

Question 36

What did Adam Smith write?

Answer 36

Wealth of the Nations.

Question 37

What did wealth of the nations become?

Answer 37

The groundwork for economics for the next 200 years.