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What is the magna carta and why was it enforced?
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Britain was in had debts so King John raised the taxes which upset barons (landowners) so the forced him to sign this.
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What did the magna carta include?
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Protection of unfair taxes, property rights, and protection of inheritance.
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What is the significance of the magna carta?
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planted the idea of individual rights and based british laws today
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What is the glorious revolution?
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Parliament wanted and Anglican ruler so they allowed mary and William of orange to take over Britain if they agreed to a limited monarch (English bill of rights)
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What is the English bill of rights?
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Empowered the government (parliament) and focused on freedom of speech. Subjected monarchs to the law
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What is the u.s. bill of rights? |
promise of rights to the people
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First amendment of the us bill of rights?
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Right to bear arms/ form militia Assembly Press Petition Speech |
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What is the declaration of rights of the man and citizen?
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passed by National constitutent assembly the were natural rights
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Who is Oliver Cromwell?
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General in English civil wars who later became the leader of Britain and made it the Puritan Empire
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What is the result of the glorious revolution?
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James II fled and mary and William of orange were the first limited monarchs
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Ptomlemic vs Copernincan
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Ptolemic : the model in which everything revolved around the earth Copernican: the model in which everything revolves around the sun |
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What impact did the scientific revolution have? |
*emphasis on the studying nature belief that science can explain it all *challenges church authority *led to challenging authority of oppressive government the Enlightenment. |
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Who is John Locke? What Did he believe?
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Enlightenment thinker.... believed man is born with natural rights of life, health, liberty along with rightful possessions.
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Who is Montesquieu? What did he believe?
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(wrote the spirit of law) believed that the government needed to divide the power to avoid corruption
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Who is Rousseau? What did he believe?
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believed in direct democracy and that society corrupts humans
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Who is Hobbes? What did he believe?
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enlightenment thinker that believed men were savages without government and they were all equal
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Who is Adam Smith, What did he believe?
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laissiez faire- fair economic thoughts and policies and the government should have a limited role
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7 years war impact?
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*French and Indians vs british and colonists. *british win but are in debt *tax colonists *colonists angry because they have no say and cant use land = American Revolution |
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American Revolution impact?
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colonists win freedom from Britain
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What is common sense about and who wrote it?
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Thomas pane wrote it to convince colonists to fight
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What is the great compromise?
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determined how each estate would be represented -Senate : equal reps -HOR : by population |
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What is france's reason for helping in the am. rev?
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They didn't like the british and also wanted to be able to trade with the colonists
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What issues did French monarchies have in the 1700s?
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they gave no power to the third estate and were ignorant to how life was in the third estate
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What is the tennis court oath and who was involved?
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National Constituent Assembly wanted a constitution
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What food shortages were there?
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Bread (main food of the third estate)
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Explain the Peninsular War...
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France vs Portugal for the peninsula because Portugal continued to trade with britain
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What is the constitution of year VIII
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established form of government known as Consulate
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What is the Napoleonic code and why is it important.
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codeified france, no more privilege based on birth
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