Social Reform and Enlightened Despots- The Enlightenment

"the social/political movement whose goal was to end slavery"

• abolition movemen

• enlightened despot

• natural rights

• women’s rights movement

"those who wanted to end slavery"

• abolitionists

• despot

• parliament

• suffrage

"an enlightened despot who ruled Russia from 1762 to 1796"

• Catherine the Great

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• William Wilberforce

• parliament

"Influenced by the writings of the Enlightenment philosophers who supported natural rights, the separation of power in a government, the consent of the governed, social contract, and the freedom of expression.

• enlightened

• immoral

• despot

• social reform

"a king or queen whose ideas and actions were influenced by the Enlightenment thinkers"

• enlightened despot

• natural rights

• abolitionists

• parliament

"An English writer and philosopher who was an advocate for women’s rights and wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman"

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Catherine the Great

• Emily Dickinson

• Elenor Roosevelt

"rights that all people are born with and that John Locke believed the government should protect including the rights to life, liberty, and property; sometimes called “natural laws”

• Natural rights

• social reform

• suffrage

• petition

"a part of a government that makes laws; the legislative branch of government; referred to as Parliament in Great Britain and many other countries, but can have different names like Congress in the United States of America"

• Parliament

• suffrage

• women's rights movement

• enlightened despot

"to make a formal request"

• petition

• abolition

• parliament

• suffrage

"an attempt by a group of people who attempt to make positive change in society"

• Enlightened

• natural rights

• soical reform movement

• William Wilberforce