Enlightenment

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  1. 2. believed that the natural goodness of man was warped by society
  2. 4. ended the American Revolution
  3. 5. initiated taxes on glass, lead, paint, paper, and tea
  4. 6. Created Separation of Powers
  5. 10. astronomical model in which the Earth and planets revolve around the Sun at the center of the universe.
  6. 13. convention was intended to revise the league of states
  7. 17. developments in mathematics, physics, astronomy, biology, and chemistry transformed the views of society about nature.
  8. 18. a territory subject to a form of foreign rule.
  9. 20. wrote that man has three natural rights: life, liberty and property
  10. 22. the North American conflict in a larger imperial war between Great Britain and France
  11. 24. primary author of the Declaration of Independence.
  12. 25. the process of objectively establishing facts through testing and experimentation.
  13. 26. government in which the same territory is controlled by two levels of government
  14. 27. made a major contribution to the ratification of the Constitution by writing The Federalist Papers
  15. 28. invented calculus
  16. 30. intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition.
  17. 31. government control is to ensure that peace persists in society
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  1. 1. the only Founding Father who signed all three documents that freed America from Britain.
  2. 3. punitive laws passed by the British Parliament
  3. 7. Proved # correct
  4. 8. American statesman, attorney, diplomat, writer, and Founding Father who served as the second president of the United States
  5. 9. official act taken by all 13 American colonies in Separating from British rule
  6. 11. Opposite of #
  7. 12. 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. 14. Tax on newspapers and legal and commercial documents
  9. 15. loosely organized, clandestine, sometimes violent, political organization active in the Thirteen American Colonies
  10. 16. formulated a model of the universe that placed the Sun rather than Earth at its center.
  11. 19. a ruler with absolute power who embraces Enlightenment ideals, such as the rights and liberties of individuals, and chooses to use their absolute power to better the lives of average citizens
  12. 21. "I may not agree with what you have to say but I will fight to the death for your right to say it."
  13. 23. American Founding Father, military officer, politician and statesman who served as the first president of the United States
  14. 29. exchange of ideas, receive and give criticism, read their own works and hear the works and ideas of other intellectuals.