Enlightenment Video Notes
1) When did the Enlightenment occur?
1600’s – 1700’s
2) Define Enlightenment
A time of illumination
3) What is reason?
Rational thought
4) What did the Enlightenment scholars want to rid the world of?
Superstition and ignorance
5) Bacon believed science could free ordinary people from what?
ignorance
6) List THREE things Bacon based his approach in science on.
Experimentation, Generalization, Observation
7) What did Descartes believe about God? (clock example)
He set the universe in place and then let it alone.
8) Descartes’ and Bacon’s ideas led to the _Scientific__________ method.
9) When was the English Civil War?
1642-1649
10) What happens to the king and the monarchy? When is the monarchy restored?
King was executed. Monarchy was abolished. Restored in 1660.
11) What laws did Newton formulate?
Gravity and motion.
12) What did Hooke discover?
The cell.
13) John Locke believed that the power of government to rule must come from what?
The consent of the governed.
14) What happens to the King during the Glorious Revolution of 1688?
He had to give up a lot of his power to Parliament.
15) What were Locke’s 3 Natural Rights?
Life, Liberty, Property
16) Locke called for what to happen if governments did not protect these rights?
Overthrow the government if rights are not upheld.
17) Montesquieu called for what in government?
Separation of government into legislative, executive, and judicial branches.
18) Enlightenment philosophers wanted to see a separation
of_church__________and____state______.
19) What is a Deist?
Believed God created the universe but then left it alone.
20) What document did Thomas Jefferson write?
Declaration of Independence.