Enlightenment

Any type of government where the ruler has complete power.

• absolutism
• revolution
• Enlightenment
• Social Contract

Educated Europeans changed their outlook on life by using “reason” as the key to human progress.  Also, known as the AGE of REASON.

• absolutism
• revolution
• Enlightenment
• Social Contract

The governed agree to be ruled only so that their rights, property and happiness be protected by their rulers.

• absolutism
• revolution
• Enlightenment
• Social Contract

A radical change with a widespread impact.

• absolutism
• revolution
• Enlightenment
• Social Contract

The struggle over who gets what, when, and how.

• Economics
• Politics
• Revolution
• Renaissance

How scarce resources are acquired and allocated to satisfy unlimited wants.

• Economics
• Politics
• Revolution
• Renaissance

Believed all men are selfish and competitive and need an all powerful leader to rule over them?

• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu

Believed in religious tolerance and free speech.

• Voltaire
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu

Believed that men have natural rights to life, liberty, and property and that government’s role is to protect those rights?

• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu

Developed the idea for separation of powers (three branches of government) in government.

• Wollstonecraft
• Hobbes
• Locke
• Montesquieu