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Unit 9 - 9th (extra)
Unit 9: Age of Absolutism and Enlightenment (extra)
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Adam Smith | Enlightenment thinker who said government should not interfere with business (laissez faire) |
| English Bill of Rights | made the Parliament more powerful that the English king |
| English Civil War (opposing groups, results) | Protestant Parliament defeated the Catholic king of England |
| enlightened despot | absolute monarch who followed Enlightenment ideas |
| Enlightenment thinkers | John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, Adam Smith, Voltaire |
| John Locke | Enlightenment thinkers who said all people should be guaranteed natural rights |
| legislature | body of lawmakers, ex: US Congress, British Parliament |
| natural rights | Enlightenment idea that people have a right to life, liberty, and property |
| Petition of Rights | document that said the English king must ask the Parliament to raise taxes |
| Phillip II (2nd) | Spanish absolute monarch who ruled by divine right and built the failed Spanish Armada to invade English |