WH Unit 6 Vocab

means in French "hands-off" and refers the government allowing businesses to basically govern themselves

• laissez-faire

• salons

• rococo

• baroque

rules discovered by reason (such as gravity, social, economic, and political problems)

• natural law

• social contract

• censorship

• salons

published a book called the Wealth of Nations where he states that markets (businesses) should be given control instead of the government and tariffs need to be outlawed

• Diderot

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

• Adam Smith

• Voltaire

when the government bans books, ideas, etc from the people and freedom of the press. thinkers used fiction to get around this

• natural law

• social contract

• censorship

• natural right

an agreement between rulers (promise to protect society) and their subjects (promise to obey)

• natural law

• social contract

• censorship

• salons

enlightened despot of Austria that enacted some Enlightenment ideas, such as religious freedom and declaring the end of serfdom

• George III

• Joseph II

• Catherine the Great

• Fredrick the Great

a place where Enlightenment ideas were discussed

• laissez-faire

• salons

• rococo

• baroque

government in which power is divided between the national, or federal, government and the states

• enlightened despot

• popular sovereignty

• federal republic

• philosophe

absolute monarchs (rulers) that brought about political or social change

• enlightened despot

• popular sovereignty

• federal republic

• censorship

published a book called the Spirit of Laws where he calls for a government divided into three branches (legislative, executive, and judicial) believed in seperation of powers in government

• Thomas Hobbes

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Voltaire