Unit 4 Prompt Words

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popular soverignty

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is the belief that the legitimacy of the state is created by the will or consent of its people, who are the source of all political power.

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john locke

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medical researcher and physician, political operative, economist and idealogue for a revolutionary movement, as well as being one of the great philosophers of the late seventeenth and early eighteenth century

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voltaire

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a French Enlightenment writer, historian and philosopher famous for his wit and for his advocacy of civil liberties, including freedom of religion and free trade.

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rousseau

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a major Genevan philosopher, writer, and composer of 18th-century Romanticism.

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seven years' war

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a global military conflict between 1756 and 1763, involving most of the great powers of the time affecting North and Central America, Europe, the West African coast, India and the Philippines

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thomas paine

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an author, pamphleteer, radical, inventor, intellectual, revolutionary, and one of the Founding Fathers of the United States

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boston massacre

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an incident on March 5, 1770, in which British redcoats killed five civilian men.

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boston tea party

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a direct action by colonists in Boston, a town in the British colony of Massachusetts, against the British government and the monopolistic East India Company that controlled all the tea coming into the colonies

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declaration of independence

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a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies then at war with Great Britain were now independent states, and thus no longer a part of the British Empire

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revolutionary war

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a war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers.

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constitution

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the supreme law of the United States of America

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ancien regime

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the aristocratic, social and political system established in France from (roughly) the 15th century to the 18th century under the late Valois and Bourbon dynasties

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three estates

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first: church
second: nobility
third: lower class

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declaration of the rights of man and the citizen

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a fundamental document of the French Revolution, defining the individual and collective rights of all the estates of the realm as universal

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national assembly

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a legislature, or the lower house of a bicameral legislature in some countries

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jacobins

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a member of the Jacobin Club (1789–1794).

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olympe de gouges

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a French playwright and political activist whose feminist and abolitionist writings reached a large audience.

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robespierre

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one of the best-known and most influential figures of the French Revolution.