Enlightenment and Absolutism

Famous economists, defender of free-markets, author of The Wealth of Nations.

• Adam Smith
• John Locke
• Jean-Jacques Rousseau
• Thomas Hobbes

What is the heliocentric theory?

• There is no sun
• The sun is smaller than the Earth
• The sun is the center of the universe
• There is no moon

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

• The U.S. Declaration of Independence
• Vindication of the Rights of Women
• The French Constitution
• Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems

This was an 18th century philosophical movement of intellectuals, aiming to apply reason to all endeavors.

• Reformation
• Renaissance
• Enlightenment

Enlightenment thinker who believed in natural rights (Life, liberty, property):

• Montesquieu
• Voltaire
• Locke
• Rousseau

Adam Smith’s doctrine that maintains that the state should not intervene in economics, from his book Wealth of Nations, is called ______.

• Laissez-faire
• Socialism
• Mercantilism
• Imperialism

The ability of one branch of government to limit the power of the other is called ___.

• a natural law
• checks and balances
• a social contract
• laissez-faire

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Montesquieu
• Thomas Hobbes

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights.

• True
• False 

During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in ___.

• the church
• the military
• reason
• science