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The Enlightenment
The enlightenment was more of a movement |
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| A European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. |
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Natural rights
Usually, don't want their natural rights taken away. |
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| Rights everyone has under law The declaration of independence list life liberty and the pursuit of happiness as natural rights. |
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Social Contract
My parents study the social contract. |
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| An implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection. |
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Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Hobbes was a philosopher. |
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| English materialist and political philosopher who advocated absolute sovereignty as the only kind of government that could resolve problem. |
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john locke
People trusted john locke. |
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| Most influential of Enlightenment thinkers and commonly known as the "Father of Liberalism". he believed in the natural life to life liberty and property. |
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Jean-Jacques Rousseau was born on june 28 1712. |
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| Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Francophone Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of the 18th century. |
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Voltaire
Voltaire died in Paris. |
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| A French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher famous for his wit, his attacks on the Catholic Church. |
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Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Jefferson was kind to his people and worked as a good president. |
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| Aauthor of the Declaration of Independence and later served as the third President of the United States from 1801 to 1809. |
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George Washington
Gorge Washington was chief and commander of the continental army during the American revolution. |
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| George Washington was an American politician and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States and the declaration of independence. |
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Baron de Montesquieu
Bardon de montesquieu was known for his thoughts |
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Baron de Montesquieu
Bardon de Montesquieu was known for his thoughts. |
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| He was a French political thinker who lived during the Age Of Enlightenment. He is famous for his theory of the separation of powers in government. |
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Paul Revere
Paul Revere was born on January 1st, 1735. |
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| He was an early member of the Sons of Liberty and took part in the Boston Tea Party. |
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King George III
King Gorge the 3rd had a mental illness. |
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| King gorge the 3rd had a mental illness and was the longest ruling monarch. in great Brittian. |
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Thomas Paine
Thomas Paine was known for "common sense". |
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| Influenced the American Revolution, and helped pave the way for the Declaration of Independence. |
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Marquis de Lafayette
Marquis de Lafayette Was apart of the revolutionary war. |
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| Was a French aristocrat and military officer who fought in the American Revolutionary War. |
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General Cornwallis
Lord Charles Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia in the American War of Independence. |
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| A general officer of the highest rank. |
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General Cornwallis
Lord Charles General Cornwallis surrendered to George Washington at Yorktown, Virginia in the American War of Independence. |
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| A general officer of the highest rank. |
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Louis XIV
A lot of people hated at Louis XIV. |
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| Was a monarch of the House of Bourbon who reigned as King of France from 1643 until his death in 1715. |
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Louis XVI
Louis XVI married Austrian archduchess Marie-Antoinette. |
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| Louis XVI brought the French Revolution crashing down upon himself, and in 1793 he was executed. His wife, Marie-Antoinette, was executed nine months later |
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Marie Antoinette
Maire Antoinette the wife of Louis the 16th. |
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| was the last Queen of France before the French Revolution. |
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Maximilien Robespierre
Reign of Terror lasted from September 1793 until the fall of Robespierre in 1794. Its purpose was to purge France of enemies of the Revolution and protect the country from foreign invaders. |
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was a French lawyer and politician, one of the best-known and most influential figures associated with the French Revolution and the Reign of Terror. |
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Olympe de Gouges
Olympe de Gouges supported feminism. |
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French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience. She began her career as a playwright in the early 1780s. |
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Napoleon Bonaparte
Napoleon Bonaparte lead many campaigns. |
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| Napoléon Bonaparte was a French military and political leader who rose to prominence during the French Revolution. |
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Declaration of Independence
The Declaration of Independence was adopted at second continental congress. |
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| The Declaration of Independence is defined as the formal statement written by Thomas Jefferson declaring the freedom of the thirteen American colonies from Great Britain. |
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Loyalists
my family is people who are Loyalists. |
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| People who are loyal to their country. |
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U.S. Constitution
U.S. Constitution has laws. |
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| A document that embodies the fundamental laws and principles by which the United States is governed. It was drafted by the Constitutional Convention and later supplemented by the Bill of Rights and other amendments. |
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Bill of Rights
Many citizens understand the bill of rights. |
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The first ten amendments to the US Constitution, ratified in 1791 and guaranteeing such rights as the freedoms of speech, assembly, and worship. |
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French and Indian War
The French Indian war is known as the seven years war. |
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| The French and Indian War was the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France known as the Seven Years' War. |
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Proclamation of 1763
The proclamation of 1763 was issued by king gorge the 3rd. |
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| The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7, 1763, by King George III following Great Britain's acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years' War. |
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Sugar Act
When the sugar act happened the colonists were mad. |
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| The Sugar Act, also known as the American Revenue Act, was a revenue-raising act passed by the British Parliament of Great Britain. |
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Stamp Act
The stamp act " NO TAXATION WITHOUT REPRESENTATION" |
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| The new tax was imposed on all American colonists and required them to pay a tax on every piece of printed paper they used. |
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Townshend Act
The Townshend act helped a lot of writers. |
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| The Townshend Acts of 1767 were a series of laws which set new import taxes on British goods including paint, paper, lead, glass, and tea. |
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Boston Massacre
Only 5 colonists died in the Boston massacre. |
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| The Boston Massacre was a street fight that occurred on March 5, 1770, between a patriot mob, throwing snowballs, stones, and sticks, and a squad of British soldiers. Several colonists were killed. |
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Boston Tea Party
At the Boston tea party, many people were protesting against the act. |
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| On December 16, 1773, the Sons of Liberty, led by Samuel Adams, planned to show Parliament how they felt about the Tea Act. They boarded the British ship Dartmouth docked in Boston Harbor, dressed up as Native Americans, and dumped an entire load of tea into the water. |
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Intolerable Acts
The intolerable act lead back to the Boston tea party. |
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| One of the laws closed the port of Boston until the colonists paid for the tea that they had destroyed. |
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No Taxation without Representation
The colonists were mad at the time so they said no taxation without representation |
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| colonists at being taxed by a British Parliament to which they elected no representatives and became an anti-British slogan before the American. |
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1st/2nd Continental Congress
the continental congress represents the 13 colonies. |
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| It governed during the Revolutionary War and under the Articles of Confederation. |
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