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History of PA #1
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Undergraduate 3
03/05/2008

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Piedmont Plateau
Definition
End of the coastal plane to beginning of the Application Mountains, very fertile land, and farmland.
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States
Definition
45,000 sq/miles, Agriculture #1 business, and mountains contain incredible amounts of resources, #1 oil producer back when PA had a lot of coal.
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Chiefdoms
Definition

small groups’ minimal to technology

     Stayed in one place for a long time and plant

     When ground shows signs of exhaustion they move away onto another plot of land

     Don’t settle in cities

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Tribes
Definition

­Native Americans

  Tribal council

  Chooses about war

     Relations with other tribes

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Lenni Lenape
Definition

“first people” first settled here in P.A.

     Claimed to area-D.E. Indians

     Chief assigned labor task

     Kept peace

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Animistic religion
Definition
of animals, other entities, and humans as well, the beliefs in soul, the influence of souls
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Reformation
Definition

Protestants, in PA, changing of the false doctrines and malpractices of the Catholic Church started by Martin

     Luther

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Martin Luther
Definition

Was upset about the corruption of the system and the ignorance of religion.

     Creates a long list of the problems in the Catholic Church and nails it to the church door

     Prince protects him from the Pope who is highly angered by this

     Pope over powers him and goes off and creates Lutheran religion

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Simony
Definition
a deliberate intention of buying or selling for a temporal price such things as are spiritual of annexed unto spirituals,
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Nepotism
Definition
favoring of relatives based upon their relations and not their skill
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Clerical Immorality
Definition
neglect of celibacy, drunkenness, gambling, Irish
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Sale of Indulgences
Definition
Leo X selling these things saves you from purgatory
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Enlightenment
Definition
During the enlightenment is when Columbus came to US 1492, religious war, people coming from England to escape religious war, Puritans came to stay, practice religion without being bothered.
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Epistemology
Definition
the study of knowledge and justified belief
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. D. Hume
Definition
Human minds are a miniature version of the divine mind
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T. Hobbes
Definition

How did ­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­­__________ get into power?

  Before a state of nature everyone did what was good for their own common being Created the commonwealth

          A man cannot do anything that is detrimental to him

        Bad place to live before the war

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J. Locke
Definition

believed that human nature is characterized by reason and tolerance, advocated governmental checks and

       balances and believed that revolution is not only a right but an obligation in some circumstances
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J.J. Rousseau
Definition

politics is based not on some fictional social contract, but instead upon the general will of people in a community

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A. Smith
Definition

he came up with the supply and demand and he is a big supporter of laissez fare (to keep the government out of economic issues)

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I. Newton
Definition

- was an English physicist, mathematician, astronomer, theologian, natural philosopher, and alchemist,

              enunciated the principles of conservation of momentum and angular momentum

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F. Bacon
Definition

elevated nature into a humanistic discipline, science must be open and free and all idea must be allowed in it,

              science should have human goals

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Natural Rights
Definition
John Lock, life, liberty, and property
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Individual Sovereignty
Definition
a king of a dictator making the decisions, one single person instead of the popular vote
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Henry VIII
Definition

Created his own church (Anglican) church due to the Catholic Church being against divorce. Asked for enrollment from pope but was not granted so created his own church and divorced Catherine of Aragon.

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Catherine of Aragon
Definition

was married to Author then he died and he married Henry the 8th but was not able to give him a son so he got an enrollment from her

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Anglicans – Conformists
Definition
were for Henry 8th and the Anglican Church which had a lot of ceremony (the rich and the wealth)
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. Puritans - Non-conformists
Definition
against the ceremony and all the richness in the church believed that it should be simple
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James I
Definition
Mary Queen of Scots son, King of England after Elizabeth, was against parliamentarianism- tended to ignore them
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Absolutism v Parliamentarianism
Definition

Absolutism is the king rules everything and they don’t have to listen to anybody and

what they say goes. Parliamentarianism is when the king has to share the power with the parliament and cannot make decisions with out the consent of the parliament

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Charles I
Definition
- son for James I needed new taxes to defend England from Scotland so he called parliament, they refused to grant his request unless he granted certain basic rights, he said no so English Revolution broke out, Oliver Cromwell lead the revolution and Charles I lost and he was beheaded
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Civil War
Definition
English Revolution, British verse the British, Royalist vs. the revolutionaries
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Oliver Cromwell
Definition
leader of the new model army, eventually became dictator like, Replaced by Charles II
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Restoration
Definition

The restoration of the monarchy

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Charles II
Definition

more open to the parliament then the previous kings have been, brother James II

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