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James I
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invited to England to assume the throne, did not get along with dissenter groups

aka James VI of Scotland

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dissenters
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did nto like the direction of the Anglican church
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puritans
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wished to purify the church of England and stay in it
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separatists
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not puritans, they did not want to stay in teh church they wanted to form a church of their own
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London Company
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got permission to settle in VA
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set sail in the Mayflower Sept 1620
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London Company
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John Carver
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1st governor at Plymouth
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1662
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Halfway Covenant
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allowed unconverted relatives of church members ro join the churches
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halfway covenant
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founded the pietist movement
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philip spener
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biggest leader in Christian education
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August Franke
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German Baptists
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broke from teh state churches; built first printing press in colonies
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Moravians
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founded by John Huss; forerunners of the protestant Reformation, helped spread the Gospel
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went to PA and took th Gospel to the Indians there
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David Zeisburger
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dutch reform minister
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Theodore Frelinghuysen
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most powerful figure in English revivals
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George Whitfield
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reuslt of the great awakening
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increased interest in : Missions, education

Religious Liberty & Political Liberty

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Act of Unity
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forced all ministers to subscribe to guideines to the Anglican church
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Age of Reason
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turned to mans ideas instead of Gods
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placed mans rationalism above the Bible
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John locke
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believed that truth was uncertain
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David Hume
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the principle that truth is uncertain
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Skepticism
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trusted Christ at Aldersgate
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John Wesley
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William wilberforce
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dedicates himself to the eradication of slavery
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John howard
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jail reform, costed him his life
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Edmund Burke
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Said " good government must have religion and morality"

stood up for the colonies in America

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William Blackstone
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laws must be grounded in Gods laws
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Captain James Cook
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 charted New Zealand
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Mercantilism
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measured a nations wealth by the amount of gold and silver it possessed
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first prime minister of the hanoverian line of kings
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robert walpole
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Committees of correspondance
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Keep people informed of the British; Samuel Adams
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Olive Branch Petition
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always represents peace; can we not work this out
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Proclamation of Rebellion/Prohibitory Act
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thrust us out of british empire; on our own and forced to fight for independence
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yorktown
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final victory
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articles of confederation
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first basis for national government of the US

John dickinson

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Mount Vernon convention
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maryland and VA
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Father of the COnstitution
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James Madison
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best known of hte second great awakening evangelists
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Charles Finney
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St Bartholomew's Day Masacre
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admiral gasard coligny was the first to be murdered
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Henry IV (bourbon/navarre)
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est bourbon line of kings
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Married Marie de Medici
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Henry bourbon/navarre
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Edict of Nantes
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allowed Huguenots to meet openly
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Louis XIII
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took throne at a yong age
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Louis XIII's regent
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cardinal Richeliu
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cardinal richeliu's successor
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cardinal mazarin
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Louis XIV
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the sun king; build the palace of versailles; authoritarian
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verrazano
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Nc to nova scotia
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cartier
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st lawrence river
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champlain
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father of new france; quebec
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Marquet & Joliet
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Mississippi Valley
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LaSalle
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claims louisiana for France
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rationalism
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replaces god and bible with his teaching (voltaire); mans unaided reason should determine truth
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Romanticism
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lead with the heart; Rousseau
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Encyclopedia
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Diderot; it was their own Bible
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after me the deluge
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Louis XV
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Estates General
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3 Estates:

1. clergy

2. nobility

3. france- merchants-->peasants

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ruling body of france
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National Assembly
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national assmebly
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the third estate declared itself this
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August 4 decrees
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ended the lords privileges
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declaration of rights of man and citizen
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liberty

equality

fraternity

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civil constitution of the clergy
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sold off church land

clergy are now state employees

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national convention
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headed up by the Left (radicals/liberal)

Jacobin, Robespierre

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instituted the Reign of Terror
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Robespierre
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the consulate
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Napoleon- 1st council
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plebiscite
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election in which the people express their will; napoleon drew up a new consitution in the form of a plebiscite
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napoleon bonaparte
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has himself made emperor and crowns himself
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battle of trafalgar
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assault against England; napoleon suspended the operation
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Lord Horatio Nelson
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commander of the battle of trafalgar
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the continental system
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all european trade had to go through French central port
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Czar Alexander I
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tries to pull Rusia out o the system; Napoleon says NO
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Battle of Leipzig
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napoleon loses this battle; forced to abdicate and exiled to island of elba; he escapes back to Italy and it begins the 100 days of napoleon
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battle of waterloo
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napoleon was forced to abdicate again and exiled to St helena
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