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