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Vocabulary
Question | Answer |
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Absolute Monarch | a king or queen who has unlimited power and seeks to control all aspects of society |
Eddict of Nantes | a 1598 declaration in which the French king Henry IV promised that Protestants could live in peace in France and could set up houses of worship in some French cities. |
Divine Right | the idea that monarchs are God’s representatives on earth and are therefore answerable only to God |
Skepitalism | a philosophy based on the idea that nothing can be known for certain |
Intendent | a French government official appointed by the monarch to collect taxes and administer justice |
Thomas Jefferson | Wrote the Declaration of Independence |
Bill of Rights | the first ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution, which protect citizens’ basic rights and freedoms |
Declaration of Independence | a statement of the reasons for the American colonies’ break with Britain, approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776 |
John Locke | Considered human nature and the role of Government and created the political theory. |
Salon | a social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment |
Neoclassical | relating to a simple, elegant style (based on ideas and themes from ancient Greece and Rome) that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s |
Fedural System | a system of government in which power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states |
Checks and Balences | measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others |
Enlightment | an 18th-century European movement in which thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and the scientific method to all aspects of society |
Estates | one of the three social classes in France before the French Revolution—the First Estate consisting of the clergy; the Second Estate, of the nobility; and the Third Estate, of the rest of the population |