Quizlet Modern World History (Williams- Foran)

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  1. After French and Indian War: Britain had lost and taxed colonists a lot
  2. Baron de Montesquieu: Wrote Persian Letters and Spirit of the Laws
  3. 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
  4. Capernican Theory: Planets rotate around the sun
  5. Colonist's Reaction: Stopped exporting to Britain, boycott all British goods, established Minute Men
  6. Common Sense (Thomas Paine): Convinced colonists to fight
  7. Constitution of U.S.A.: Montesquieu- Three Branches of Gov. Locke- Natural Rights, Voltaire- Freedom of Speech, Rosseau- democracy, Joseph II- Religious tolerance
  8. Decleration of Independence (T. Jefferson): Locke- natural rights, Paine- Common Sense
  9. Divine Right Theory: God sent the king
  10. Franics Bacon: Scientific Method
  11. French and Indian War: 7 Years War Indians and France vs. Britain and American colonies
  12. Galileo: Proved Capernican Theory, devoloped telescope
  13. How did the church try to stop the Enlightment?: Ban, Burn, Jail
  14. Issac Newton: Gravity
  15. Jean Jasquces Rosseau: Wrote Confessions and Social Contract
  16. John Locke: Wrote Two Treaties of Government
  17. Philosophe: Lovers of wisdom
  18. Proc. 1763: Colonists couldn't go past Appalachian Mts.
  19. Rue Saint Honore: Madame Geoffrion famous salon- Voltaire spoke, Mozart Played
  20. Salons: Meeting places for the philosophes
  21. Stamp Act: Paper
  22. Sugar Act: Sugar (alcohol)
  23. Thomes Hobbes: Wrote Leviathan (all people are bad) and he was a philosophe
  24. Townshend Acts: Tax on almost everything else
  25. Views of Baron de Montesquieu: For: World happiness, Social Justice, Wellbeing Aganist: Tyranny, Ignorance, and Superstitution
  26. Views of Jean Jasques Rosseau: People start out good and society makes them bad (non-social)
  27. Views of John Locke: All people are reasonable, Natural Rights (Life, Liberty, Property)
  28. Views of Voltaire: Say what you think
  29. Voltaire: Wrote Candide
  30. What were the first three American settlements?: Jamestown, Plymoth, Roanoke
  31. Who were the three royals to support the Enlightment?: Ferderick the Great (Prussia), Katherine the Greak (Russia) Joseph II (Austria [Hapsburg]