Enlightenment and Scientific Revolution

A method of reasoning that moves from specific instances to a generalization. Specific to general.

• Scientific Method

• Federal System

• Inductive Reasoning

• Rationalism

A gathering of intellectual, social, political, and cultural elites under the roof of a wealthy host, for both entertainment and knowledge through conversation.

• Rationalism

• Voltaire

• Salons

• Philosophe

Who is associated with the concept of separation of powers and the three branches of government?

• Heliocentric

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

What is the belief that the sun is the center of the universe called?

• Scientific Method

• Geocentric

• Heliocentric

• Rationalism

An agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed.

• Separation Of Powers

• Social Contract

• Federal System

• Scientific Method

An eighteenth-century religious philosophy based on reason and natural law.

• Philosophe

• Voltaire

• Separation Of Powers

• Deism

Supported by Montesquieu and included in the US Constitution; divides government into three branches so no one person or group has all the power

• Geocentric

• Social Contract

• Separation of Powers

• Deism

Social contract theory

• Rousseau

• Voltaire

• Hobbs

• Salons

Who promoted laissez-faire, free-market economy, and supply-and-demand economics?

• François Quesnay, Physiocracy and Laissez-faire

• Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations

• Industrial Revolution

• Jean-jacques Rousseau, the Spirit of the Laws

Who believed people in their natural state were basically good but corrupted by the evils of society?

• Rousseau

• Laissez-faire

• Montesquieu

• Voltaire