Enlightenment Review

What was the Enlightenment?

• a political system in which a ruler holds total power  

• a global intellectual movement characterized by advancements in communications technology

• a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism

• a political system in which the people hold the power

The Enlightenment emerged as a response to this European political philosophy

• Constitutional Monarchy

• Absolutism

• Democracy

• Republicanism

What was Absolutism?

• a political system in which the people hold the power

• a political system in which a ruler holds total power  

• an economic system based on exports exceeding imports

• an economic system in which free trade reigns supreme

What type of activity was shaped by this new way of thinking?

• revolutionary

• reactionary

• obedience to authoriy

• obedience to religion

Deism was a new way of looking at

• religion

• economics

• politics

• science

What was Deism?

• the belief in God, but a God that only set the universe in motion and did not interfere in human existence

• the belief that monarchs are divine

• similar to athiesm

• a new religion, created by Enlightenment thinkers, it replaced god with science

the civic impulses of citizens seeking to pursue the common good within their community.

• General WIll

• Social Contract

• Deism

• popular sovereignty

a voluntary agreement among people defining the relationship of individuals with one another and with government

• General WIll

• Social Contract

• Deism

• popular sovereignty

John Locke's Idea of Life, Liberty and Property can be seen in what Enlightenment document?

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Bolivar's Jamaica Letter

• Declaration of Independence

• United States Constitution

Which of these movements will the Enlightenment influence?

• expanded suffrage (voting rights)

• abolition of slavery

• end of serfdom

• all of these options were influenced by the Enlightenment!