| Term | Definition |
|---|
| Divine Right Theory | God sent the king |
| Baron de Montesquieu | Wrote Persian Letters and Spirit of the Laws |
| Views of Baron de Montesquieu | For: World happiness, Social Justice, Wellbeing Aganist: Tyranny, Ignorance, and Superstitution |
| Thomes Hobbes | Wrote Leviathan (all people are bad) and he was a philosophe |
| Philosophe | Lovers of wisdom |
| John Locke | Wrote Two Treaties of Government |
| Views of John Locke | All people are reasonable, Natural Rights (Life, Liberty, Property) |
| Voltaire | Wrote Candide |
| Views of Voltaire | Say what you think |
| Jean Jasquces Rosseau | Wrote Confessions and Social Contract |
| Views of Jean Jasques Rosseau | People start out good and society makes them bad (non-social) |
| Franics Bacon | Scientific Method |
| Issac Newton | Gravity |
| Galileo | Proved Capernican Theory, devoloped telescope |
| Capernican Theory | Planets rotate around the sun |
| How did the church try to stop the Enlightment? | Ban, Burn, Jail |
| Salons | Meeting places for the philosophes |
| Rue Saint Honore | Madame Geoffrion famous salon- Voltaire spoke, Mozart Played |
| Who were the three royals to support the Enlightment? | Ferderick the Great (Prussia), Katherine the Greak (Russia) Joseph II (Austria [Hapsburg] |
| What were the first three American settlements? | Jamestown, Plymoth, Roanoke |
| French and Indian War | 7 Years War Indians and France vs. Britain and American colonies |
| After French and Indian War | Britain had lost and taxed colonists a lot |
| Stamp Act | Paper |
| Sugar Act | Sugar (alcohol) |
| Townshend Acts | Tax on almost everything else |
| Proc. 1763 | Colonists couldn't go past Appalachian Mts. |
| British reaction to Boston Tea Party (Intolerable Acts) | One town meeting a year, closed the port of Boston, Quartering Act, criminals were tried in Britain |
| Colonist's Reaction | Stopped exporting to Britain, boycott all British goods, established Minute Men |
| Common Sense (Thomas Paine) | Convinced colonists to fight |
| Decleration of Independence (T. Jefferson) | Locke- natural rights, Paine- Common Sense |
| Constitution of U.S.A. | Montesquieu- Three Branches of Gov. Locke- Natural Rights, Voltaire- Freedom of Speech, Rosseau- democracy, Joseph II- Religious tolerance |
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