Liberalism
Which liberal thinker believed in creating a 'Leviathan' super government?
Thomas Hobbes
Jean-Jacques Rousseau wants to create a form of government with the people rule called the?
Social Contract
This was the religious movement throughout the colonies that promoted a personal encounter with God
Great Awakening
This event in Boston showed the British King that the colonists would refuse to pay pricey taxes on tea?
A tax on all major documents and papers, making things more expensive for the colonists
Stamp Act
This term describes family beyond parents and children
Extended family
This city was the center of many Enlightenment ideas?
Paris, France
What liberal thinker believed government must protect the natural rights of life, liberty and property?
John Locke
What does the Catholic medieval view of government want to achieve, for all people?
The common good
This New England minister was the leader of the Great Awakening?
Jonathan Edwards
What are some qualities of the liberal view of aristocracy?
Anyone with talents, education, good virtue, and other good qualities - can serve in public life.
A law that said the colonists could not govern themselves, but had to let Britain govern the colonies?
Declaratory Act
This was a way to oppose not paying taxes that would benefit Britain, by not paying the tax or not buying the product?
Boycott
This Enlightenment figure believed power should be divided in order to prevent one person or one group from having too much power?
Montesquieu of France
Which three areas of life did the Enlightenment try to change?
Religion, Government/politics, science
This was the king of Britain who was the intended audience for the Declaration of Independence?
King George III
This Proclamation prevented American colonists from moving westward beyond the Appalachian Mountains?
Proclamation Line of 1763
What are some qualities of the traditional view of aristocracy?
Only the wealthy, elite people who were born into the aristocracy should govern society
This law gave religious liberty to French Catholics in Quebec after Britain gained this territory after the French and Indian War?
Quebec Act
This became a practice in the colonies to try to avoid paying taxes to the British Crown?
Smuggling goods
What was one reason for the French Revolution?
People were starving, 98% of the people had no power, Enlightenment ideas were inspiring the revolutionaries, France had become too involved in the American Revolution
This term describes the elite, well-educated group of society who are leaders?
Intelligentsia
This was the Revolution that was inspired by the American Revolution?
French Revolution
This war involved the rivalries of France, Britain, Spain, the American colonists, and Native Americans and helped lead the way to the American Revolution?
French and Indian War
This was the first formal union of the 13 colonies as they prepared to fight against the British in the American Revolution?
First Continental Congress
This was a group of American colonists who opposed British laws, and were part of the Boston Tea Party?
Sons of Liberty
The natural rights of life, liberty and property were described in this way by Thomas Jefferson, author of the Declaration of Independence?
Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness
This German philosopher promoted reason as the way to learn about the world?
Immanuel Kant
This figure helped spread ideas of natural rights throughout the American colonies?
Thomas Paine
This was the attempt to unite the colonists by Benjamin Franklin during the time period of the French-Indian War, but was not successful?
Albany Plan of Union, made by the Albany Congress
This figure was a soldier in the French and Indian War, fighting for Britain; a general of the American Revolution; and the first leader of the newly independent USA?
George Washington
This was a proposal of unifying the colonies against Britain but was rejected
Albany Congress
This law was passed as a punishment against Boston Tea Party?
Intolerable Act or Coercive Act
This was the founding document written on July 4, 1776 that gave the reasons for why the Americans wanted to separate from the British King?
What was one reason for the American Revolution?
The Americans were paying heavy taxes without being represented in the British government, to pay for the French-Indian War.