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