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The Enlightenment
SS OGT Practice
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Federalism | a system of government in which power is divided between the national government and smaller political units, like states; a system in which the power to govern is shared between national and central "state" governments |
| Enlightened | the state of an aged marked by science, rationality, and a new reverence for all humanity |
| Immanuel Kant | Influential German idealist philosopher who believed that science and morality should be separate branches of knowledge; did not believe that "enlightened" should be dictating moral behavior |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | French philosopher and writer; wrote The Social Contract; taught that inequality was unnatural and that the aristocracy had betrayed traditional values; the church should not be teaching children |
| Age of Enlightenment | a cultural movement of intellectuals in the 17th and 18th centuries, which began in Europe and spread to the American colonies; purpose was to reform society using reason and advance knowledge through the scientific method |
| Thomas Jefferson | agreed with Jean-Jacques Rousseau on his Social Contract Theory (inequality was unnatural and that the aristocracy had betrayed traditional values) expressed in the Declaration of Independence, which he wrote |
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