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American Revolution
Question | Answer |
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the age of reason | enlightenment |
eager to promote the new ideas, many wealthy parisian women began hosting social gatherings | salons |
hobbes called this exchange between society and government | social contract |
he's an english philosopher | john locke |
the french philosopher | jean-jacques rousseau |
he was a french thinker | baron de montesquien |
another worr for philosopher | philosophes |
he attacked injustice wherever he saw it | voltaire |
a few monarches developed a system of government in which they ruled according to enlightenment ideas | enlightened despots |
colonists had to pay a tax for an official stamp on all newspapers | stamp act |
they were familiar with enlightenment concepts | thomas jefferson and benjamin franklin |
theyy assigned him before independence had been declared | george washington |
in september 1783 the british government formally recognized the independence of the united states by signing | treaty of paris |
he played a leading role in negotiating the main points | james madison |
a system of government in which power is divided between a central, or a federal, government and individual states | federal system |