1.Absolutism

The government had absolutism power.

Def:principle/exercise of unchecked power in a government.

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2.Adam Smith

Adam Smith was a guy who lived a long time ago.

Adam Smith was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment era.[image]

3.Baron de Montesquieu 

Baron de Montesquieu was a contributer to the enlightment.

Charles-Louis de Secondat, Baron de La Brède et de Montesquieu, generally referred to as simply Montesquieu, was a French lawyer, man of letters, and political philosopher who lived during the Age of Enlightenment

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4. Benjamin Franklin

Benjamin Franklin was a person who created america.

Benjamin Franklin was a renowned polymath and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.

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5.Cesare Beccaria

Cersare Beccaria was a great thinker.

Cesare Bonesana-Beccaria, Marquis of Gualdrasco and Villareggio was an Italian criminologist, jurist, philosopher, and politician, who is widely considered as the most talented jurist and one of the greatest thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment

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6.Dark Ages

The dark ages were a horrible time.

The "Dark Ages" is a historical periodization traditionally referring to the Middle Ages, that asserts that a demographic, cultural, and economic deterioration occurred in Western Europe following the decline of the Roman Empire

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7.Enlightenment

The Enlightenment was full of great thinkers.

The Enlightenment was an intellectual and philosophical movement that dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 18th century, "The Century of Philosophy

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8.Father Hidalgo

Father Hidalgo fought for mexico to be independent.

was a Mexican Roman Catholic priest and a leader of the Mexican War of Independence.

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9. Ignorance (C)

His ignorance made them break up.

Ignorance is a lack of knowledge. The word ignorant is an adjective describing a person in the state of being unaware, and can be used to describe individuals who deliberately ignore or disregard

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10. Intolerance (C)

There was intolerance to the new laws that Trump past.

unwillingness to accept views, beliefs, or behavior that differ from one's own

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11.Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a brilliant writer.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century

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12.John Locke

John Locke had a lot of liberal ideas the founding fathers used.

John Locke FRS was an English philosopher and physician, widely regarded as one of the most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism"

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14.Liberty 

I saw the Statue of Liberty yesterday.

the state of being free within society from oppressive restrictions imposed by authority on one's way of life, behavior, or political views.

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14.Mary Wollstonecraft

Mary Wollstonecraft helped to fight for the rights of women.

Mary Wollstonecraft was an English writer, philosopher, and advocate of women's rights. During her brief career, she wrote novels, treatises, a travel narrative, a history of the French Revolution, a conduct book, and a children's book.

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15. philosophe

My parents told me never to go to college to be a philosophe.

The philosophes (French for "philosophers") were the intellectuals of the 18th-century Enlightenment. Few were primarily philosophers; rather, philosophes were public intellectuals who applied reason to the study of many areas of learning, including philosophy, history, science, politics, economics, and social issues.

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16.natural rights

Everyone born has natural rights that should be respected.

17.Philosophy

Philosophy makes people think of things in a different way.

the study of the fundamental nature of knowledge, reality, and existence, especially when considered as an academic discipline.

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18.Reason 

He had to give a reason why he came home late.

a cause, explanation, or justification for an action or event.

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19.Scientific Revolution

The scientific revolution didn't came with it a lot of discoveries.

The scientific revolution is a concept used by historians to describe the emergence of modern science during the early modern period, when developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology and

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20.Simon Bolivar

Simon Bolivar had an awesome mustache.

was a Venezuelan military and political leader who played a leading role in the establishment of Venezuela, Bolivia, Colombia, Ecuador, Peru, and Panama as sovereign states

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21.Social Contract

Being a citizen comes with a social contract.

an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.

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22.Suffrage

Suffrage is important in our society.

the right to vote in political elections.

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23.Superstition

I think superstitions are true.

a widely held but unjustified belief in supernatural causation leading to certain consequences of an action or event, or a practice based on such a belief.

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24.Thomas Hobbes

Thomas Hobbes is a person who thinks a lot.

Thomas Hobbes of Malmesbury, was an English philosopher who is considered one of the founders of modern political philosophy. 

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25.Thomas Jeffferson

Thomas Jefferson is on money.

Thomas Jefferson was an American Founding Father who was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809

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26.Voltaire

Voltaire I think wasn't christian.

French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the established Catholic Church and Christianity .

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