World History Enlightenment

Enlightenment

Historical period where people tried to make their lives better by emphasizing individualism and reason

Philisophe

Name given to any thinker of the Enlightenment, French word for philospher

John Locke

The key to creating the 3 natural GOD-GIVEN rights. Life, Liberty, Property

3 Natural Rights

God given rights everyone is born with. Life, Liberty, Property - John Locke

Voltaire

4 shocking ideas - equality under the law, freedom of speech, religion, and knowledge. Your rights may not outweigh the safety of the nation, “bomb on a plane”

4 shocking ideas

Equality under the law, freedom of speech, religion, and knowledge- Voltaire

Protects individual rights

U.S. constitution

Rousseau

Stitched together the social contract, people willingly give up some natural rights for the government to provide safety and protection for the people.

Social contract

People willingly give up some natural rights in exchange for the government providing safety and protection for the people. - Rousseau

What happens if the social contract gets broken?

Punishment, replacement, revolution

Montesquieu

Too much power in the government, seperated the government into 3 branches, legislative, executive, judicial. All power is equal

Seperation of powers

Government has too much power, seperated into 3 equal branches.. judicial, legislative, executive - Montesquieu

Adam Smith

Thinker of “Laissez-Faire” (hands off my money) in result to mercantilism. Government can only use our money for army, police, and public works

Laissez-Faire

“Hands off my money”, government can only spend our tax dollars on army, police, and public works. -Adam Smith

Mercantilism

Command economy, kings make all economic decisions and keep all the money

Mary Wollstonecraft

Women deserve rights too, used mens logic against them.. women are humans too, therefore deserve the same natural rights men deserve.

Womens rights

If king cannot control man, why can man control women? Women are people too and deserve all natural rights men do. -Mary wollstonecraft

Divine right of kings

A monarch deserves power over man, given to directly from God

Scientific Revolution

A period where modern science strongly advanced due to observation, expirement, and questioning rather than following tradition.

Galileo

A thinker in the scientific revolution that was an astronomer, physicist, and named the father of observational astronomy.. he was one of the first to branch out with discovery and questioning.

Checks and balances

A system of government where seperate branches have the power to limit and control the action of other branches.