vocabulary- Chapter 17 Enlightenment & Revolution

a period during the 1600s and 1700s when reason was used to guide people's thoughts about society, politics, and philosophy

• Enlightenment

• Contract

• Ideals

• Natural Rights

a binding legal agreement

• Enlightenment

• contract

• ideals

• Natural Rights

ideas or goals that people try to live up to

• Enlightenment

• contract

• ideals

• Natural Rights

the belief that developed during the Enlightenment that people had certain rights, such as the right to life, liberty, and property

• Enlightenment

• contract

• ideals

• Natural Rights

non-religious

• secular

• salon

• popular sovereignty

• natural rights

a social gathering held to discuss ideas during the Enlightenment

• secular

• salon

• popular sovereignty

• natural rights

the Enlightenment idea that governments should express the will of the people

• secular

• salon

• popular sovereignty

• natural rights

French philosopher, he mocked government and religion in his writings

• Voltaire

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• John Locke

French philosopher, he believed in popular sovereignty and the social contract between citizens and their governments

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

• John Locke

French Enlightenment thinker, he believed that government should be divided into separate branches to protect people's freedom

• Voltaire

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Charles-Louis Montesquieu

• John Locke