Enlightenment and American Revolution Flashcard Whitley

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Who argued that distributing powers to separate branches of government would avoid tyranny and promote quality?

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Montesquieu

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Cataloged the new Enlightenment worldview in his work, the encyclopedia?

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Diderot

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Believed man had 3 natural rights: life, liberty, and property. Emphasized a government that had a limited amount of power.

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John Locke

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Believed that men were naturally wicked and needed to live under a sovereign power to avoid conflict.

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Thomas Hobbes

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Emphasized a separation of powers in government with a system of checks and balances.

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Montesquieu

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Conceptualized a social contract, or an entire society agrees to be governed by its general will.

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John Locke

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Led the Continental Army during the Revolutionary War.

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George Washington

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The monarch in Great Britain at the time of the American Revolution.

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George III

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The main author of the Declaration of Independence

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Thomas Jefferson

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Which battle ultimately led to peace negotiations? Options: Yorktown, Saratoga, Ft. Ticonderoga, Boston

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Yorktown