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Name of the treaty that ended AMR - gave us more land

Treaty of Paris

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An intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.
The Enlightenment
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This political thinker presented an agument for the education of women and she also declared that women should have the same political rights as men.
Mary Wollstonecraft
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The Declartion of Independance was written by
Thomas Jefferson
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M&M’S Fruit Chews would eventually become what popular candy?

Starburst

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Where was Benjamin Franklin at trying to get aid?

Paris
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He believed that all people were born free and equal with three natural rights.

John Locke - and if the government does not protect those rights, you can protest/rebel. 

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This aristocratic philospher was devoted to the study of political liberty. He proposed that separation of powers would keep any individual or group from gaining total control of a government.
Montesquieu
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The Bill of Rights was heavily influenced by which great English thinker?
John Locke
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What is the only food that can never go bad?

Honey

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What pamphlet did Thomas Paine write that was a cause of the American Revolution?

Common Sense

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This English thinker believed that people needed to hand over their rights to a strong ruler in order to gain law and order.
Thomas Hobbes
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Salons are

Places where enlightenment ideas would be shared, organized by women. 

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What did American colonists protest as "taxiation without representation"?
Stamp Act
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Anna, Elsa Kristoff and Olaf are all characters in what animated movie?

Frozen

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Name of our first constitution

Articles of Confederation

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The definition of Natural Rights is? 

Rights given to you because you are human that can not be taken away. 

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This philospher's masterful use of satire got him in frequent trouble with the clergy, the aristocracy, and the government of France. Despite serving two prison terms and being exiled he never stopped fighting for tolerance, of reason, freedom of religion, and freedom of speech.

Voltaire

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What idea of Montesquieu was adopted by U.S. Constitution?
Separation of powers
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In 1215, what doctrine was the first of its kind to establish that a king was not above the tenants of the law?

Magna Carta

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The Constitution created a ________ _________ of government. Which certain powers are given to federal and state governments. 

Federal System

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Name the three natural rights that John Locke believed everyone had the right to.
Life, Liberty and property
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This philosopher argued that reason, science, and art corrupts people's natrual goodness.
Rousseau
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How did the Declaration of Independance embody Enlightenment ideas?
It stressed the importance of the rights, liberties, and other ideas of the Enlightenment period.
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Who is Luke Skywalker's father?

Darth Vader