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