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H-II units 6 & 7
| Description | Person or Vocab |
|---|---|
| English author of Two Treatises on Government and other works; he developed the idea of government as a social contract in which the government was bound to protect people’s natural rights, and if it failed to do so, the people had a right to rebel | John Locke |
| Perhaps the most internationally famous American in the middle of the 18th century; a versatile genius who was a printer, author, scientist, inventor, businessman and diplomat; he was ambassador to France during the Revolution | Ben Franklin |
| Author of the Declaration of Independence and third president of the United States who was greatly influenced by the idea of natural rights | Thomas Jefferson |
| Young Virginian militia officer who started the French and Indian War when he fired upon a party of French soldiers and explorers in the Ohio River Valley | George Washington |
| The most famous French writer of the Enlightenment, whose satirical works mocked the French court and the church; he was exiled to England and served time in the Bastille | Voltaire |
| French writer of the Enlightenment who criticized its reliance on reason; he argued for a version of the social contract in which the people gave up their individual rights in order to secure the “general will”. | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| An “enlightened despot” and the ruler of Prussia, he sought to modernize his country without giving up political power; he corresponded with Voltaire and invited him to his court; he also instigate the War of Austrian Succession in 1740 | Frederick II “the Great” |
| British monarch from 1760 to 1820, whose personal insecurities and instability were at least partial causes of the American Revolution | George III |
| American patriot who nonetheless defended the soldiers accused of murder following the Boston Massacre; later an ambassador to France and second president of the United States | John Adams |
| American patriot who organized the “Sons of Liberty” and committees of correspondence and helped orchestrate the Boston Tea Party | Sam Adams |
| British-American writer; author of Common Sense and The Rights of Man | Thomas Paine |
| founding document of the United States as a sovereign nation | Declaration of Independence |
| an organized refusal to buy; one of the responses of the American colonists to British tax and trade policies | boycott |
| The new theological idea that believed in God as a creator but largely rejected the organized religions of the period, or the idea that God intervened in the world | Deism |
| opening skirmishes of the American Revolution | Lexington & Concord |
| morale-boosting victory for the Continental Army at the end of 1776, won after Washington re-crossed the Delaware River to surprise Hessian soldiers (mercenary troops from Hesse in Germany) celebrating Christmas | Trenton |
| important victory won by Generals Gates and Arnold over British general John Burgoyne in upstate New York; the victory gave French sufficient confidence in the American cause that they came into the war as a vital American ally | Saratoga |
| decisive victory of the Revolutionary War, when the trapped Gen. Cornwallis surrendered a large British army to combined French and American forces | Yorktown |
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