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