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This is the idea that kings get their power from God and are only responsible to God, not the people.
What is Divine Right of Kings.
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He wrote about natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
100
Life, liberty and property were the examples that John Locke gave of this idea.
What are natural rights?
100
The Declaration of Independence says we have the right to life, liberty and property. Who inspired this statement?
John Locke
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What is the intellectual movement that valued individualism and reason above tradition?
What is the enlightenment?
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This document, signed by William and Mary, set the precedent for the power of the king being limited.
What is the English Bill of Rights 1688.
200
He wrote the "Social Contract".
Who is John Jaques Rousseau?
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This is the idea that people give up some of their rights to the government in order to receive protection and security.
What is the social contract?
200
Our constitution separates powers into three branches- who inspired that idea?
Montesuieu
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As more people were able to read and afford books more of these were being published.
What are periodicals.
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This is the name for when William (and Mary) of Orange invaded England and James II abdicated the throne with no bloodshed.
What is The Glorious Revolution.
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This person wrote about the separation of powers.
Who is Montesquieu?
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This is the idea that the governments powers should not be held with one person or agency- they must be split up amongst different people.
What is separation of powers?
300
Colonists in America believed that they should not be taxed by parliament because of this.
They were not represented in Parliament.
300
This group in society was growing during the enlightenment.
What is the middle class.
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This is a system of government where the ruler holds total power.
What is absolutism.
400
He is considered the father of capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
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This means that the government does not interfere with the economy.
What is laissez-faire?
400
This was the first country to recognize the United States as a country.
What is France.
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“Hence it is evident that absolute monarchy, which by some men is counted the only government in the world, is indeed inconsistent with civil society, and so can be no form of civil government at all; for the end of civil society being to avoid and remedy those inconveniences of the state of nature which necessarily follow from every man being judge in his own case, by setting up a known authority, to which everyone of that society may appeal upon any injury received or controversy that may arise, and which everyone of the society ought to obey. Wherever any persons are who have not such an authority to appeal to for the decision of any difference between them, there those persons are still in the state of nature; and so is every absolute prince, in respect of those who are under his dominion.” —John Locke, Second Treatise of Government, 1690 Is this passage in favor of an absolute monarchy?
No.
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This person led Parliament in the English Civil War and went on to rule England as a commonwealth.
Who is Oliver Cromwell.
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“As every individual, therefore, endeavours as much as he can both to employ his capital in the support of domestic industry, and so to direct that industry that its produce may be of the greatest value; every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it. By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention.” —Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, 1776 According to this passage why does a person promote domestic (within his own country) industry?
What is to ensure his own security.
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WHEN, in the Course of human Events, it becomes necessary for one People to dissolve the Political Bands, which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the Earth, the separate and equal Station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s GOD entitle them, a decent Respect to the Opinions of Mankind requires that they should declare the Causes which impel them to the Separation. —The Declaration of Independence Which enlightenment idea is expressed above?
What is John Locke's belief that power comes from the people OR Rousseau's Social Contract.
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This treaty ended the 7 Years War and gave Britain land that made it the biggest colonial power in the world.
What is the Treaty of Paris.
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The difference between the old way of looking at the universe and the newer, more enlightenment way was that instead of the Earth in the middle it was the ____________.
What is the Sun?