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1
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French writer concerned with government and political liberty

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Montesquieu

2
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Grand, ornate style

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baroque

3
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Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas

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scientific method

4
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Author of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

5
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New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question

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Scientific Revolution

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Author who wrote about women’s rights

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Mary Wollstonecraft

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View which held that the earth was the center of the universe

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geocentric theory

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Social gathering for discussing ideas or enjoying art

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Salon

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Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom, of religious belief, and freedom of speech

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Voltaire

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First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution; protections of basic rights for individuals

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Bill of rights

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Social critics of France

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Philosophes

12
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Ruler who supported enlightenment ideas but did not give a power

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Enlightened despot

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Philosopher who wrote about government

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John Locke

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According to Thomas Hobbes, an Agreement people make with Goverment

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Social Contract

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System in which each branch of government checks, or limits, the power of the other two branches

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checks and balances

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Document declaring American independence from Britain

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Declaration of Independence

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Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe

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heliocentric theory

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Simple style that borrowed ideas from classical Greece and Rome

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neoclassical

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Age of Reason

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Enlightenment

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System of government in which power is divided between the national and state governments

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Federal system

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Scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientific ideas that disagreed with the church’s view

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Galileo Galilei

22
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Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity

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Isaac Newton

23
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Enlightenment thinker who championed freedom

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Rousseau

24
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Russian ruler who took steps to reform and modernize Russia

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Catherine the Great