The Enlightenment

18th Century philosophical movement greatly impressed with the achievements of the Scientific Revolution

• The Renaissance

• The Industrial Revolution

• The Enlightenment

• The Rococo Period

Intellectuals of the Enlightenment

• philosophes

• laissez-faire

• Deists

• Rationals

Who believed that people had certain natural rights? (life, liberty, and property)

• Voltaire

• Denis Diderot

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

According to Rousseau's concept of the social contract

• people should be governed according to their moral

• a society agrees to be governed by its general will

• governments should punish people harshly for crimes

• the government should not interfere in the education of the people

The concept of Deism is based on

• superstition

• human nature

• reason and natural law

• Biblical text

John Locke's philosophy was used by the American founding fathers to

• give support to the British monarchy

• encourage people to live without government

• support the use of slave labor in the south

• justify a constitutional government

Denis Diderot's greatest contribution to the Enlightenment was the

• Encyclopedia

• Leviathan

• Wealth of Nations

• Two Treatises of Government

Who wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Woman?

• Margaret Cavendish

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• Francis Bacon

• Betsy Ross

Who argued for the government to stay out of economic matters in his book The Wealth of Nations?

• Montesquieu

• Thomas Jefferson

• Adam Smith

• Voltaire

The economic policy of _________ allowed businesses to operate with little or no government interference.

• supply-side economics

• trickle-down economics

• mercantilism

• laissez-faire