Chapter 17

Question 1

Rules Discoverable by reason that govern scientific forces (example: Gravity)

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Natural Laws

Question 2

Thought people were crude, greedy, and selfish; wrote the Leviathan

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Thomas Hobbes

Question 3

thought people deserved Life Liberty Property optimistic
Wrote Treatises of government if government fails to protect the people’s natural rights then th people have the right to overthrow the government

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John Locke

Question 4

an actual or hypothetical agreement among the members of an organized society or between a community and its ruler that defines and limits the rights and duties of each

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Social Contract

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Natural rights

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Rights a person is born with, like life, liberty, property

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one of the deistic or materialistic writers and thinkers of the 18th century French Enlightenment

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Philosophes

Question 7

Wrote THE SPIRIT OF THE LAWS

THE BEST WAY TO PROTECT LIBERTY IS TO DIVIDE UP THE POWERS OF GOVERNMENT INTO BRANCHES

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Montesquieu

Question 8

is the most famous of the philosophes

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Voltaire

Question 9

produced the ENCYCLOPEDIA, a 28- volume set of books filled with articles written by enlightenment thinkers of the day.

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Diderot

Question 10

Wrote the social contract

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Rousseau

Question 11

a philosophy or practice characterized by a usually deliberate abstention from direction or interference especially with individual freedom of choice and action

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Laissez Faire

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Wrote THE WEALTH OF THE NATIONS

Supply and demand

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Adam Smith

Question 13

the restricting of access to ideas and information

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Censorship

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Informal social gatherings

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Salons

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Art

Grand and ornate, glorified battle and the lives of the saints.

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Baroque Art

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Art

Light, elegant, charming, encouraged the imagination.

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Rococo Art

Question 17

freed from ignorance and misinformation a ruler with absolute power and authority
most radical of these

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enlightened despots. Joseph II

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King of Prussia from 1740-1786

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Frederick the Great

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Empress of Russia who increased the empire greatly; Enlightenment despot

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Catherine the Great

Question 20

most radical of the enlightened despots.

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Joseph II

Question 21

wanted to assert his power in the colonies.

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King George III

Question 22

import tax on any paper goods

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Stamp Act

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Continental army was led by

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George Washington

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Wrote most of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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all power comes from the people

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Popular sovereignty

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Surrender of the British Army in

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Yorktown, Virginia

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Ended war

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Treaty of Paris

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Father of the Constitution

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James Madison

Question 29

Tried to appeal the Stamp Act

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Benjamin Franklin

Question 30

Power divided between the Federal, National and state

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Federal Republic

Question 31

Explain and compare the views of Thomas Hobbes and John Locke

Answer 31

Thomas Hobbes thinks people are crude greedy and selfish Leviathan- proposed a "social contract" where people give up their freedom for the privilege of an organized society. John Locke things people deserve Life Liberty Property optimistic Treatises of government if government fails to protect the people's natural rights then th people have the right to overthrow the government

Question 32

How might the outcome of the American Revolution been different if France hadn't participated?

Answer 32

Great Britain would have won and the would be no US and no constitution or anything like that. We would not have advanced. We would not be the great country we are today. We would be an okay country but Great Britain would've been the US. They would be advanced have all the cool electronics and stuff.

Question 33

What was the protest used by the colonists and what did it mean

Answer 33

They were protesting against the stamp act. It raised the taxes on paper products. Paper was pretty much in everything that the colonists used. They had to pay higher taxes for the newspaper, stamps, and etc. It meant they were going to be firm and stick up for what they thought was right.