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19 Cards in this Set
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French royal family who ruled for most of the 17th and 18th centuries
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Bourbon Family
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day that marks the murder of at least a thousand Huguenots
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St. Bartholomew's Day Massacrew
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Parliament claimed the right to rule England with this document
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Petition of Right
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belief that having fun publically was a sin and was banned during Cromwell's rule
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Puritan Morality
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stated that a person should not be arrested without knowing what they are being arrested for
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Habeas Corpus
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laws that govern human nature
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Natural Laws
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man who wrote and published the Encyclopedia
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Denis Diderot
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believed in a social contract and also
believed that people are born free but are enslaved by society |
Jean Jacques Rousseau
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contract where England gains Wales, Ireland, and Scotland
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Act of Union
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British upper-class run branch of government
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House of Lords
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British lower-class run branch of government
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House of Commons
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British gains all of French Canada, the French Indian trade system, and French Newfoundland
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Seven Years' War
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rights that belong to everyone from birth
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Natural Rights
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"lovers of wisdom"
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Philosophes
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believed that people are naturally
cruel; wrote Leviathan |
Thomas Hobbes
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belived in natural rights; wrote the
Two Treatises of Government |
John Locke
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created the system of checks and
balances; wrote Spirit of the Laws |
Montesquieu
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believed in and fought for
freedom of speech |
Voltaire
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believed that women were limited by their lack of education; wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women
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Mary Wollstonecraft
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