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What is conservatism?
It is the ism in direct opposition to liberalism
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Who is John Locke?
This man came up with the concept of tabula rasa and wrote Two Treatises of Government
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What are les philosophes?
This group of political thinkers included a few Founding Fathers of the United States, as well as philosophers such as John Locke and Voltaire
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What is capitalism?
Dictates that the economy's means of production are privately owned and profited from
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Who are Audrey, Ethan, Reese, and Riley?
They presented the Enlightenment today
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What is abolitionism?
This was a movement advocating for the termination of the Atlantic Slave Trade and emancipation of all slaves
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Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This philosopher intuited the idea that the general will of the population should be executed by the government
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What is a social contract?
To Locke, it meant the right of a people to overthrow their government
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Who is Adam Smith?
The invisible hand is this economist's brain-child
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Who is Audrey?
They presented the Les Philosophes slide
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What is socialism?
A type of society set up with an economic system of public or direct worker ownership over means of production
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Who is Voltaire?
Author of Candide, this philosopher's idea of religious liberty can be found in the U.S. Constitution
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What is a separation of powers?
This idea, integrated into the U.S. Constitution, was developed by Baron Montesquieu and included a checking of those powers
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What is laissez-faire?
This is a policy of economic organization that dictates the government have limited influence on economic decision
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Who is Genghis Khan?
Who founded the Mongol Empire?
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What is Zionism?
It is a form of Jewish nationalism
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Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
She published A Vindication of the Rights of Women and was a founding proponent of feminism
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What is the Fabian Society?
This sect of socialism preferred diplomatic reform to physical revolution
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Who is Henri de Saint-Simon?
He advocated for public employment opportunities
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What is the right?
In the deism slide, Thomas Paine was on which side (right or left)
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What is deism?
It teaches that religious education comes from reason and personal experience, rather than from a religious institution or divinity
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Who is Charles Fourier?
He was a Utopian Socialist who proposed that there are 810 passions that made work enjoyable
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What is the Dreyfus Affair?
A Jewish man was convicted of treason against the French government, a claim based on documents fabricated by proponents of Anti-Semitism; which affair was this [hint: it was named after him]
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What is classic liberalism?
This ism advocated for reduced spending on armies and churches and laissez-faire economics
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What is anything but 42?
What is the meaning of Life, the Universe, and Everything
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