the enlightenment and american revolution
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brandon_mc205 on April 26, 2012
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WHS, 10th grade, world history
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 why did montesquieu believe in seperation of powers? | he believed it protected the liberties of the people |
| what were the first two political parties in britain? | the tories and whigs |
| who controlled trade between the colonies and britain? | britain |
| what is meant by the term "cabinet"? | a group of parlimentry advisors |
| how did the colonists use the ideas of john locke? | the declaration of independence |
| name three political enlightenment thinkers | thomas hobbs,john locke,and baran demontesoveu |
| what is philosophe? | A member of a group of Enlightenment thinkers who tried to apply the methods of science to the improvement of society |
| why did joseph II adopt enlightenment ideas? | to gain power |
| why did american resentment of the british increase after 1763? | because britain began to restrict trade and increase taxes |
| what helped britain become a global power in the 1700's | its powerful navy |
| constitutional government | a government whose power is defined and limited by law |
| enlightenment despots | absolute rulers embraced new ideas and made new reforms that reflected the Enlightenment spirit |
| natural laws | laws that govern human nature |
| natural rights | rights that belong to all human beings from birth |
| physiocrat | thinkers that focused on economic reforms |
| censorship | restricting access to ideas and information |
| laissez faire | allowing business to operate with little or no government interference |
| salon | a social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment. |
| federal republic | form of government in which the federal and state governments share powers |
| bach | german composer |
| george III | british king who tried to reassert royal power |
| josoph II | noes bury emperer who improved the lives |
| rousseau | philosopher who believed man was good |
| elizabeth I | increases England's power |
| bill of rights | The first ten amendments to the Constitution |
| second constitutional congress | Issued Declaration of Independence |
| boston massacre | British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists who were teasing and taunting them. Five colonists were killed. The colonists blamed the British and the Sons of Liberty and used this incident as an excuse to promote the Revolution. |
| federal government | a form of government in which powers are divided between a central government and several local governments |
| boston tea party | protest against increased tea prices in which colonists dumped british tea into boston harbor |
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