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9th Grade Chapter 18

Review of the Enlightenment and the American Revolution

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Social Contract an agreement by which people give up the state of nature for organized society.
Laissez faire allowing businesses to operate with little or no government interference.
Enlightened despots absolute rulers who used their powers to bring about political and social change.
Salons informal social gatherings at which writers, artists, philosophers and other exchange ideas.
Constitutional government a government who's power is defined as limited by law.
Prime Minister the leader of the majority party in Parliament.
Natural rights rights that belong to all humans from birth.
Who would be most likely to support a society in which the people chose the ruler? John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau
Who believed the government should follow a policy of laissez-faire? Adam Smith
Who believed that people were basically reasonable and moral and the government should be based on the consent of the people? John Locke
Name the philosophers of the Age of Enlightenment VoltaIre, Montesquieu, Rousseau, John Locke, and Thomas Hobbes.
Who wrote the Two Treaties of Government that describes the government was based on the consent of the people and protection of natural rights? John Locke
Who developed the ideas of checks and balances and separation of powers? Montesquieu
How did the government and church officials fight against Enlightenment ideas? They burned the books (censorship)
What was the main role of the 13 colonies in the British empire? They served as trade links between Britain and North America, the West Indies and Africa.
Why were colonists angry about the British taxes they were required to pay? They felt the king was taking away their rights as British citizens (no taxation without representation).
Where did the ideas for the Constitution originate? Europe's enlightenment thinkers.
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