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US History

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Enlightenment   A time of optimism and possibility from the late 1600s to the late 1700s also called the Age of Reason  
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salons   Gatherings in which intellectual and political ideas were exchanged during the Enlightenment  
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social contract   An agreement between a people and their government stating that people would give up some of their freedom and in return their government would provide them with peace security and order  
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John Locke   English philosopher/founder of British empiricism he developed political/economic theories during the Enlightenment. He wrote Two Treatises on Government in which he declared that people have a right rebel against governments that doesn't protect rights  
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau   Swiss-French political philosopher he valued the social contract and addressed the nature of man in his work On the Origin of Inequality  
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Baron de Montesquieu   French jurist and political philosopher who explored democratic theories of government divided into three branches and greatly influenced the United States Constitution  
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philosophes   Philosophers of the Enlightenment  
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Voltaire   French philosopher and author who was a supporter of Deism the idea that god was no longer involved with the universe after creating it and also advocated a tolerant approach to religion  
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enlightened despots   The absolute monarch in the 18th century Europe who ruled according to the principles of the Enlightened  
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Stamp Act   A law passed by the British Parliament that raised tax money by requiring the American colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items  
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Thomas Jefferson   American statesman third president of the United States who was a member of the Continental Congresses chairmen of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence the Declarations main author and one of its signers  
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Benjamin Franklin   American statesman who was a philosopher scientist inventor writer publisher first US postmaster and member of the committee to draft the Declaration of Independence  
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George Washington   First president of the United States who commanded the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War and served as a representative to the Continental Congress  
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Treaty of Paris   The argument that was officially ended at American Revolution and established British recognition of the independence of the United States  
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James Madison   American statesman who was a delegate to the Constitutional Convention and the fourth president of the United States who was known as the Father of the Constitution  
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federal system   A political and social system based on the granting of land in exchange for loyalty military assistance and other services  
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