7th Grade- Enlightenment

a social gathering held to discuss ideas

• salon

• forum

• conference

• symposium

A French document that guaranteed some freedoms for French citizens and distributed the payment of taxes more fairly

• Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

• French Constitution of 1791

• Napoleonic Code

• Charter of the French Language

John Locke believed that all people had __________________, which included the rights to life, liberty, and property.

• natural rights

• civil liberties

• social contracts

• legal entitlements

this French king originally refused to agree to a new constitution limiting his powers during the French Revolution and was later executed

• King Louis XVI

• King Louis XIV

• King Charles X

• King Francis I

This North American colonial leader supported the idea of colonial independence, separation of religious and political power and would later become President of the United States.

• George Washington

• Thomas Jefferson

• John Adams

• Benjamin Franklin

a document declaring the British American colonies independent from British rule

• Constitution

• Bill of Rights

• Declaration of Independence

• Treaty of Paris

______________ means non-religious.

• sacred

• spiritual

• secular

• divine

A British document signed in 1215 that limited the power of the monarchy and established the people's right to a trial by a jury

• Magna Carta

• Bill of Rights

• Petition of Right

• English Declaration of Rights

the idea that the government should express the will of the people

• popular sovereignty

• democratic centralism

• authoritarianism

• liberalism

The use of reason in guiding people's thoughts about philosophy, society, and politics defined a time period called the ____________________.

• Renaissance

• Enlightenment

• Industrial Revolution

• Middle Ages