U3 Vocab

The belief that King/Queen is chosen by God to rule.

• Absolutism

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

• Natural Rule

The type of government in which a ruler has complete/total power over their subjects.

• Absolutism

• Divine Right

• Social Contract

• Natural Rule

The intellectual and philosophical movement in the 1700s and 1800s that led to new ideas on government and society.

• Absolutism

• Natural Rights

• Enlightenment

• Reign of Terror

An agreement between people and their government for mutual benefit. Both John Locke and Thomas Hobbes will have different theories on this idea.

• Divine Right

• Enlightenment

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

Enlightenment thinker who believed people were bad and could not be trusted to act morally.

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Marie Antoinette

• Thomas Hobbes

Life, liberty, and property are examples of this idea

• Taxation without representation

• Natural Rights

• Social contracts

• Enlightenment

Enlightenment thinker who believed people were inherently good and believed all people had a right to life, liberty, and property.

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Baron de Montesquieu

• King Louis XVI

The Enlightenment thinker who developed the idea of the three branches of government.

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Thomas Jefferson

• George Washington

• John Locke

A war between the French and the British. It caused England to go into debt and tax their colonies in America.

• French and Indian War

• Boston Massacre

• Storming of the Bastille

• Reign of Terror

Americans in the British colonies were angry about

• Taxation without representation

• Storming of the Bastille

• Reign of Terror

• Women's March on Versailles