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Enlightenment Flashcards

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What was the Age of Reason

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1687 to 1789 , people tried to think reasonably for arts, government, and society (another name for the Enlightenment)

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What three goals did Enlightened thinkers have

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Improve how people lived, think clearly and logically without feelings, and use scientific reasoning to examine parts of society

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What was the Enlightenment

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intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems

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Who was Isaac Newton

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Discovered the laws of gravity and motion and invented Calculus

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What does it mean to be enlightened

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Having a belief in reasoning; moving away from ignorance

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Who believed that people are naturally evil and selfish, an absolute monarchy is necessary to keep society under control, people give up power for law and order (social contract theory)

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Hobbes

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Who had a positive view of humans, all people have natural rights and it’s the job of government to protect these, government’s power comes from people

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Locke

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Who advocated separation of power would prevent one person from gaining too much power

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Montesquieu

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What is liberty

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Freedom

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What is having control over everyone else no matter what they say

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Absolute power

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What is people giving up certain powers to get law and order in return

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Social contract

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What is the political idea that many branches of government should share power

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Separation of powers

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Who believed that all men should receive free education and thought direct democracy was best, its the free will of individuals to establish their government

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Rousseau

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What is natural law

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laws of morality found through human reason

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Who fought for freedom of speech, religion, speech, and tolerance and believed in the separation of church and state and freedom of expression

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Voltaire

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What is free speech

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The ability to say anything without being penalized

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Who was the Enlightened Despot of Prussia who was religiously tolerant of all, and who modernized the military and law codes of Prussia

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Frederick the Great

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Who was the most famous host of the Salome from the 1750-1775; influential in the movement that led to the French Revolution

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Madame Marie Theresa Geoffrin

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What was the type of complex music developed in the late 1600s

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Baroque Music

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What was a type of music from the 1700s-1800s that is orderly and balanced; in the style of Ancient Greece or Rome

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Classical

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Who was Mozart

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Musical genius, started playing music at 5, music is more popular now even though he’s dead

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Who was Haydn

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“Father of the Symphony”, Mozart’s teacher, and first European to compose complete symphony using string and woodwind instruments

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What was the Industrial Revolution

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The major change in how people produced things and how we advance

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What are natural resources

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Resources that come from Earth, examples: coal, water, fossil fuels

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What is an industrial town

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A city where the economic system is based on the industry, such as a mining town.

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What are people who study money

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Economists

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What is money available for investment.

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Capital

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What is cloth that workers weave from cotton, silk, or wool

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Textiles

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What is when humans work to make things

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Manufacturing

30
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What were the problems for cotton growers

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It was hard to turn cotton into material without a machine

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What are imports/exports

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Imports are things being shipped into a country and exports are things being shipped out of the country

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What are machines built from and they are made with coke or purified coal

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Iron

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What is a stronger version of iron

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Steel

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What is a way of making large amounts of the same thing in a factory

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Mass production

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What is the moving of something from one place to another

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Transportation

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Why is transportation important

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Because they had to move materials

37
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What is a man made river

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Canal

38
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What workers use to pump water and move coal into coal mines and who created the first one

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Steam engine; James Watt

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How did they figure out how to make steam engines faster

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By heating water in the boiler

40
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Who is the founder of the railroad

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George Stephenson

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What are materials that are used to make things

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Raw materials

42
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Who memorized how to make a spinning machine then went to the US and sold his idea

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Samuel Slater

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What happened to cities that became industrialized

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Their populations grew very quickly and people started living more in the city more than country

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What happened in Lowell, Massachusetts

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Francis Lowell built a factory where he taught young women to read and write

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What were the dangers of working in factories

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There were little children working in it and no unions or worker regulations

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What new inventions begin to be used for power

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Electricity and oil

47
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What was invented to send messages over a long distance

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Telegraph

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What is the king rules by God’s will

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Divine right

49
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What are people born with certain rights, liberty, and property that no government can take from you

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Natural rights

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What are natural rights

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life, liberty, and property

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Who is the author of the multi volume “Encyclopedia”

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Diderot

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Who is the German that believed reason is the basis of all morality

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Immanuel Kant

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Who is the French king who solidified political, economic, and military power in the late 17th century; built Versailles, said “I am the state”

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Louis XIV

54
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Who was an enlightened despot of Russia who was a friend of Voltaire, created the first funded school for women in Europe and was leader during Russia’s Golden Age of Enlightenment

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Catherine the Great

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