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- 3. 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 Americafrenchrevoulution
- 7. an implicit agreement among the members of a society, or between a society and its rulers, about the rights and duties of each
- 11. the movement to end slavery and the slave trade, advocating for the freedom and human rights of enslaved people.
- 12. belief in the existence of a supreme being, specifically of a creator who does not intervene
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- 1. American Founding Father, the third president, and the principal author of the Declaration of Independence.
- 2. the advocacy of women's rights on the basis of the equality of the sexes.
- 4. identification with one's own nation and support for its interests, especially to the exclusion or detriment of the interests of other nations.
- 5. the action of enlightening or state of being enlightned
- 6. fundamental, universal rights that are considered inherent to all individuals, not granted by governments.
- 8. an influential English Enlightenment philosopher (1632–1704) known for his theories on knowledge, government, and human rights.
- 9. 18th-century Scottish philosopher and economist
- 10. the pen name of François-Marie Arouet, an influential French Enlightenment writer, historian, and philosopher