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- 3. a policy or attitude of letting things take their own course, without interfering.
- 7. was a formerly enslaved person who rose to become the leader of the Haitian Revolution.
- 9. the political and social movement to end slavery and liberate enslaved people
- 12. was the third President of the United States and a Founding Father, best known as the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
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- 1. the insurrection fought between 1775 and 1783 through which 13 of Great Britain's North American colonies threw off British rule to establish the sovereign United States of America
- 2. are fundamental, universal rights believed to be inherent to human beings, independent of laws or customs
- 4. a period of radical social and political upheaval in France from 1789 to 1799 that ended the absolute monarchy and established a republic
- 5. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- 6. an implicit agreement among the members of a society to cooperate for social benefits, for example by sacrificing some individual freedom for state protection.
- 8. a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
- 10. belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene in the universe.
- 11. was a 17th-century English philosopher and physician known for his influential ideas on government, knowledge, and the mind.