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47 Cards in this Set
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Dislike by many because he was Roman Catholic
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James II
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In 1688, Parliament asked _______ and his wife ________ to become rulers of England
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William and his wife Mary II
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William and Mary were what religion?
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Protestant
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Mary II was the daughter of ?
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James II
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Did _______ and __________ accept the offer to become rulers of England?
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Yes..William and Mary
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Who fled the country when _____ and _____ accepted the offer to rule England?
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James fled the county when William and Mary II accepted the offer to rule England
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Event was called the ______________ _________ because there wasno bloodshed
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Glorious Revolution
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Event showed that Parliament was more piowerful than the monach
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Glorious Revolution
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At the same time, Parliament passed the ____ __ ________ which increased Parliament's powers and the rights of the people
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Bill of Rights
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Name the two England political parties
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Whigs and Tories
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Wanted monarch to have more power than Parliament
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Tories
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Wanted Parliament to have more power than the monarch
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Whigs
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England was now a _________ ___________ _________
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limited constitutional monarchy
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Define limited constitutional monarchy
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Monarch's powers limited by the constitution
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British constitution, unlike the U.S. one, is not a ________ ________
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single document
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Today, the real head of the British governmentis the ______ _________
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prime minister
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England's 13 colonies in America began fighting for independence (Name event)
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American Revolution
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Who won the American Revolution?
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the colonies...duh....yeah...
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Beginning the the 1500's, new ideas emerged in science
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Scientific Revolution
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Well-known scientists
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1. Copernicus
2. Galileo |
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Believed that the earth rotated around the sun rather than the sun rotating around the earth
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Copernicus
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Believed the teachings of Copernicus
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Galileo
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Known for his work with telescopes
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Galileo
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Isaac Newton wrote about the law of ______
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gravity
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Also called the Age of Reason
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Age of Enlightment
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Important philosophers during this period dealt with question:
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Whatis the best type of government
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Believed that the man had three basic rights: __ _____ and ____
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life, liberty and property (John Locke)
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he believed in a contract theory of government (defn
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government must protect these three rights
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who believed that the government must protect the three basic rights of man?
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Johne Locke
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If a government does not protect these rights, it is broken the contract with the people, and the people should ______ it
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overthrow
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Many of Locke's ideas were used in writing the
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Declaration of Independence
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Promoted the idea of "separation of powers" in goverment
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Montesquieu
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Frenchman
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Montesquieu
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"Separation of powers"
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Goverment separated into 3 branches
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Nane the three different branches of a separation of powers government
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legislative, executive, judicial
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said that each branch should check on the other two branches
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Montesquieu
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the balancing of the three branches is called
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"checks and balances"
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"checks and balances" would help
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prevent any of the 3 branches from gaining too much power
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his ideas were used in the US constitution
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Montesquieu (LOCKE'S was in the Declaration of Independence)
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Emphasized freedom of speech
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Voltaire
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supposedly said" i disapprove of what you have to saym but i will defend to the death your right to say it"
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Voltaire
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said "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
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Rousseau
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said people shoudl control their own government (democracy)
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Rousseau
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define "deists:
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Believed God created man but that he was not concerned with man's dialy life..God was like a watchmaker that made the workd and then letit run itself
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1588
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defeat of the spanish armada
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1688
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Glorious Revolution
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late 1600's -1700's
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Age of Enlightment
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