Enlightenment
Another name for the Enlightenment..
What is the Age of Reason?
These were informal meeting where many philosophes shared their ideas about liberation and the rights of individuals. Women were often prevalent in these meetings.
What are Salons?
This act, imposed in 1850, was the wake-up call to Northerners that slavery was an American problem and not just a southern problem.
What is the Fugitive Slave Act?
This war led the British to impose new taxes/acts on the colonies.
What is the French and Indian War?
As king of England, his policies after the French and Indian War were largely responsible for angering the American colonists.
Who is King George III?
He wrote about gravity in a precise mathematical equation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
In the Two Treatises of Government, he defended the claim that men are by nature free and equal.
Who is John Locke?
This style of art showed many of the truths of slavery and war in the mid 1800's.
What is realism?
When Britain repealed the Stamp tax they replaced it with this tax on "luxuries."
What is the Townshend Act?
This event in Boston harbor is considered to be the spark that ignited the American Revolution.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
In her work, Vindication on the Rights of Women, she argued that custom, not nature, made woman inferior to man and that women have the same capacity to reason as men, thus, are by nature equal to them.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
He was known for championing religious toleration and freedom of speech. Also known for his satire.
Who is Voltaire?
Adam Smith used this term to describe his ideal economy in which the government interfered very little.
What is laissez faire?
This was the colonists' famous protest to the British Tea Act in 1773.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This is the name given to the group of Americans that supported independence from Britain.
Who are the Patriots?
This style of art, also called Late Baroque, is found in 18th century architecture, art and decoration which combines asymmetry and scrolling curves.
What is Rococo?
This famous US document contained the words inspired by the Enlightenment, "Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness."
What is the Declaration of Independence?
These three agricultural products made the south wealthy via the free labor of slaves.
What is cotton, sugar and tobacco?
This famous slogan was issued in the Virginia House of Burgesses in reaction to the Stamp Act in 1765.
What is "No Taxation Without Representation?"
This group of colonists opposed independence from Britain for a variety of reasons but mainly because trade with Britain benefited them directly.
What are loyalists?
In his work,The Social Contract, he argued that laws must reflect the "general will" or common good.
Who is Rousseau?
American politician who was influenced by Locke's writings and authored the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
He owned 200 slaves but encouraged American Slaves to rebel, describing the practice of slavery as "a cruel war against human nature."
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
In 1775 in Massachusetts, these battles were remembered for the slogan "The Shot Heard Around the World" and were the first battles of the American Revolution.
What are the Battles of Lexington and Concord?
This event is often considered the turning point in the war for independence because it convinced the French to openly support the American cause.
What is the Battle of Saratoga?