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Enlightenment Terms

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1. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)






2. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics






3. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






4. Enlightenment thinker who searched for natural laws to explain economics






5. The leader of the majority party in Parliament (Britain)






6. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)






7. Restricting access to ideas and information






8. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom






9. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)






10. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos






11. A government whose power is defined and limited by law






12. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas






13. Forced peasants to grow new crops & distributed seeds and tools & tolerated religious differences & reorganized government & and simplified laws (Prussia)






14. A ruler with complete authority over the government and the lives of the people






15. Rule or law that governs human nature






16. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society






17. A group of parliamentary advisers to the king that set policy (Britain)






18. Modernized Austria's government & granted religious toleration & ended censorship & built hospitals & and abolished serfdom






19. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)






20. Made limited government and law reforms & granted nobles a charter of rights & criticized the institution of serfdom (Russia)






21. Informal social gatherings at which writers & artists & philosophers & and others exchanged ideas






22. A system of government in which a small group holds power






23. 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






24. Rule or law that governs human nature






25. A government whose power is defined and limited by law






26. A system of government in which a small group holds power






27. 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






28. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






29. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






30. Belief that a rulers authority comes directly from God






31. Agreement by which people give up their freedom to a government in order to avoid chaos






32. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots






33. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change






34. Member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society






35. Rights that belonged to all humans from birth






36. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony






37. Restricting access to ideas and information






38. Absolute ruler who used his or her power to bring about political and social change






39. Salons & novels & art & music & Enlightened Despots






40. A policy based on the idea that government should play as small a role as possible in the ecomony