Enlightenment and Age of Reason

What rules discoverable by reason did Enlightenment thinkers try to apply to the study of human behavior and society?

• natural right

• natural law

• social contract

• divine right

In A Vindication of the Rights of Woman, Mary Wollstonecraft argued that women and men should have equal

• property rights

• education

• voting rights

• employment opportunities

Laissez faire is when the government operates with

• little trade regulation

• tariffs

• mercantilism

• a lot of trade regulation

Enlightenment writers often faced censorship because they

• wrote fiction

• challenged the old order

• supported traditional ideas

• wrote in salons

Which enlightenment despot traveled among the peasants in disguise to learn about their problems?

• Catherine the Great

• Maria Theresa

• Frederick the Great

• Joseph II

Vocab word meaning restricting access to ideas and information

• salon

• baroque

• censorship

• rococo

The Enlightenment encouraged women to take a stronger role in society by

• allowing women to become rulers of their countries.

• giving them jobs in factories.

• organizing salons in their homes where people could speak freely.

• by giving natural rights to every citizen including women and children.

A literary form that developed during the Enlightenment was

• the epic poem

• the novel

• the short story

• the lyric poem

Enlightenment thinkers were influenced by the idea of natural law that emerged from the

• Reformation

• Glorious Revolution

• Renaissance

• Scientific Revolution.

The system of checks and balances in the United States Constitution was influenced by the ideas of which Enlightenment thinker?

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire

• Rousseau

• Diderot