Enlightenment Bingo - Call List

(Print) Use this randomly generated list as your call list when playing the game. There is no need to say the BINGO column name. Place some kind of mark (like an X, a checkmark, a dot, tally mark, etc) on each cell as you announce it, to keep track. You can also cut out each item, place them in a bag and pull words from the bag.

1. This violent revolution served as a cautionary tale and resulted in an Emperor
   The French Revolution
2. A group of theories explaining why societies form and the role of government
   Social Contract
3. This belief argues that knowledge comes from logic and reason, not traditional authority
   Rationalism
4. This Spanish group was made up of mixed-race individuals
   Mestizos
5. This American document argued that the British government was failing to protect the natural rights of its citizens
   The Declaration of Independence
6. This thinker published the Encyclopedie
   Denis Diderot
7. This type of location was a gathering place for people to share and debate Enlightenment ideas
   Salons
8. A system of basic rights inherent to people that cannot be taken away
   Natural Rights
9. At this event, people argued that without a king, governing power returns to the people
   The Cortes of Cadiz
10. This thinker argued that government powers should be split to protect citizens
    Baron de Montesquieu
11. This thinker believed governments should enact the General Will, and that people are inherently good.
    Jean-Jacques Rousseau
12. This thinker argued that people have natural rights, and that societies exist to protect those rights
    John Locke
13. This traditional institution opposed Enlightenment ideas that questioned its teachings
    The Catholic Church
14. This thinker helped create the Scientific Method
    Francis Bacon
15. These revolutions fought for equality and representation against a colonial caste system
    Latin American Revolutions
16. This Spanish group was made up of American-born whites
    Criollos
17. This thinker argued for education and for equal rights for women
    Mary Wollstonecraft
18. This thinker argued for Freedom of Speech
    Voltaire
19. This American document divided government power according to Enlightenment ideas
    The US Constitution
20. A process of learning by asking questions
    Inquiry
21. The government's power to interpret the laws and judge cases
    Judicial Power
22. The government's power to enforce laws and control the army
    Executive Power
23. This French group was made up of common people (and paid taxes)
    The Third Estate
24. This violent revolution was inspired by ideas of liberty; it abolished slavery
    The Haitian Revolution
25. A government in which there are no limits on the power of the ruler
    Absolutism
26. This French group was made up of the Clergy
    The First Estate
27. The government's power to create laws
    Legislative Power
28. This invention helped spread Enlightenment ideas and information
    The Printing Press
29. The belief that society should follow what the majority of people agree upon
    General Will
30. This thinker studied the planets and created the heliocentric system
    Nicolaus Copernicus
31. A group of monarchs who enacted some Enlightenment reforms
    Enlightened Despots
32. These physical obstacles slowed the spread of the Enlightenment
    Mountains and Oceans
33. This Spanish group was made up of European-born whites
    Peninsulares
34. This Spanish group was made up of indigenous Americans
    Indios
35. This thinker believed societies existed to create order. He liked absolute monarchs.
    Thomas Hobbes
36. A period when "enemies of the revolution" were tried and executed in mass paranoia
    The Reign of Terror
37. This thinker argued that we should doubt everything until it has been proven
    Rene Descartes
38. This revolution saw the successful implementation of Enlightenment ideas and inspired other revolutions
    The American Revolution
39. This French group was made up of the Nobility
    The Second Estate