Enlightenment

Enlightenment

• a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly

• Economic and political system in which a country's trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit, rather than by the state.

• A government ruled by a few powerful people

• Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god.

Enlighted Despot

• The overthrow of one political system in order to establish another

• the lawmaking body of British government

• A political system in which a ruler holds total power

• Absolute rulers who used their power to bring political and social status. EX: Catherine the Great, Frederick the Great and Joseph II

Enlightenment Thinkers

• Michelangelo, Da Vinci, and Brunelleschi

• Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law

• Voltaire, Baron de Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith.

Political Revolution

• The overthrow of one political system in order to establish another

• a movement that emphasized science and reason as guides to help see the world more clearly

• Basic principle that government and those who govern must obey the law; the rule of law

• A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

Constitutionalism

• A government ruled by a few powerful people

• Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god.

• A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• A political system in which a ruler holds total power

Nationalism

• a conflict, lasting from 1642 to 1649, in which Puritan supporters of Parliament battled supporters of England's monarchy

• A strong feeling of pride in and devotion to one's country

• a rebellion of French people that overthrew the absolute monarchy in 1789

• Belief that a ruler's authority comes directly from god.

English Civil War

• A conflict between 1861-1865 where the northern and southern states fought over states rights, slavery, and sectionalism.

• The overthrow of one political system in order to establish another

• a rebellion of French people that overthrew the absolute monarchy in 1789

• a conflict, lasting from 1642 to 1649, in which Puritan supporters of Parliament battled supporters of England's monarchy

French Revolution

• Civil War

  a conflict, lasting from 1642 to 1649, in which Puritan supporters of Parliament battled supporters of England's monarchy

• 1215 a document english nobles forced King John to sign. This document limited the king's power.

• a rebellion of French people that overthrew the absolute monarchy in 1789

• the overthrow of King James II of England