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