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Enlightenment Terms
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Answer 40 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)
Natural Right
Frederick the Great reforms
Natural Right
Catherine the Great reforms
2. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)
Prime Minister
Absolute Monarch
Cabinet
Enlightened Despot
3. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas
Oligarchy
Salon
Spread of Enlightenment
Censorship
4. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos
Social Contract
Oligarchy
Catherine the Great reforms
Prime Minister
5. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)
Frederick the Great reforms
Natural Right
Philosophe
Joseph II
6. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth
Prime Minister
Philosophe
Natural Right
Frederick the Great reforms
7. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots
Natural Right
Cabinet
Spread of Enlightenment
Catherine the Great reforms
8. A system of government in which a small group holds power
Censorship
Social Contract
Oligarchy
Laissez Faire
9. A system of government in which a small group holds power
Philosophe
Enlightened Despot
Oligarchy
Natural Right
10. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony
Frederick the Great reforms
Frederick the Great reforms
Censorship
Laissez Faire
11. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)
Absolute Monarch
Cabinet
Catherine the Great reforms
Constitutional Government
12. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth
Natural Right
Constitutional Government
Social Contract
Laissez Faire
13. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people
Joseph II
Natural Law
Natural Right
Absolute Monarch
14. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom
Natural Law
Joseph II
Absolute Monarch
Prime Minister
15. Restricting access to ideas and information
Censorship
Scientific Revolution
Scientific Revolution
Natural Right
16. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)
Frederick the Great reforms
Prime Minister
Constitutional Government
Censorship
17. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
Natural Right
Frederick the Great reforms
Enlightened Despot
Salon
18. A government whose power is defined and limited by law
Constitutional Government
Laissez Faire
Divine Right
Salon
19. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics
Enlightened Despot
Physiocrat
Scientific Revolution
Salon
20. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)
Absolute Monarch
Prime Minister
Salon
Frederick the Great reforms
21. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people
Absolute Monarch
Oligarchy
Laissez Faire
Frederick the Great reforms
22. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)
Constitutional Government
Natural Right
Divine Right
Catherine the Great reforms
23. A government whose power is defined and limited by law
Constitutional Government
Philosophe
Scientific Revolution
Frederick the Great reforms
24. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots
Spread of Enlightenment
Natural Law
Natural Right
Enlightened Despot
25. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society
Censorship
Philosophe
Spread of Enlightenment
Censorship
26. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics
Physiocrat
Salon
Enlightened Despot
Oligarchy
27. Rule or law that governs human nature
Spread of Enlightenment
Philosophe
Natural Law
Constitutional Government
28. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos
Cabinet
Frederick the Great reforms
Social Contract
Enlightened Despot
29. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God
Prime Minister
Cabinet
Divine Right
Enlightened Despot
30. Restricting access to ideas and information
Absolute Monarch
Salon
Natural Law
Censorship
31. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change
Physiocrat
Laissez Faire
Divine Right
Enlightened Despot
32. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God
Natural Right
Cabinet
Scientific Revolution
Divine Right
33. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society
Censorship
Spread of Enlightenment
Philosophe
Prime Minister
34. Rule or law that governs human nature
Enlightened Despot
Natural Law
Divine Right
Prime Minister
35. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)
Prime Minister
Salon
Natural Law
Oligarchy
36. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas
Constitutional Government
Philosophe
Social Contract
Salon
37. A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world
Prime Minister
Physiocrat
Scientific Revolution
Censorship
38. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony
Laissez Faire
Catherine the Great reforms
Prime Minister
Enlightened Despot
39. A major shift in thinking between 1500 and 1700 in Which modern science emerged as a new way of gaining knowledge about the natural world
Scientific Revolution
Social Contract
Censorship
Cabinet
40. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom
Absolute Monarch
Joseph II
Cabinet
Catherine the Great reforms