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chapters 16 & 17
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History
10th Grade
01/15/2007

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Henry VIII
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established Anglican Church
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Mary I
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wanted to restore Catholicism. "Bloody Mary"
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Elisabeth I
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pay fines
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Mary Queen of Scotts
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plotted to kill Elisabeth I. was caught & beheaded
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James I
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authorized King James version of Bible
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limited constitutional monarchy
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power of King & Queen limited by the constitution.
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Charles I
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Monarch whose religious restraints during the 1630s led to thousands of Puritans leaving England for a new life in America
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French & Indian War
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known as the Seven Years' War in Europe, settled British-French rivalry in North America.
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"no taxation without representation"
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colonists' rallying cry
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Bill of Rights
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the first ten amendments to the US constitution that guarantee the basic rights of all citizens of the united states.
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popular sovereignty
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belief htat government is created by and subject to the will of the people
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bourgeoisie
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merchants, manufacurers, and professionals of the city-dewlling French middle class
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Loyalists
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American colonists who favored independence from Britain
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enlightened despotiam
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system of government in which absolute monarchs ruled according to the principles of the Enlightenment.
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Denis Diderot
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Edited and publihed the first edition of the Encyclopedia
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Thomas jefferson
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was the principal author of the American Declaration of Independence
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Baron de Montesquieu
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published The Sprit of the Laws, in which he tried to describe what he considered the perfect government.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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wrote in The Social Contract that all people are born good but that environment, education, and laws corrupt them
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Articles of confederation
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the first plan of the government for the united states
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Age of Enlightenment
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what people of the 1700s refferred to their century as
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