Enlightenment and Revolutions Terms
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| 1. | Charles I | King of England; executed by Oliver Cromwell |
| 2. | Charles II | Restored as King of England in 1646 |
| 3. | Cavaliers | group that supported Charles I in English Revolution |
| 4. | Roundheads | group that supported Parliament and Cromwell in English revolution |
| 5. | Puritans | religious group that opposed King Charles I |
| 6. | Oliver Cromwell | leader of Parliament and the Roundheads; made dictator of England |
| 7. | Glorious Revolution | bloodless installment of William and Mary as monarchs of England |
| 8. | William and Mary | became monarchs of England in 1688 |
| 9. | John Locke | English Enlightened philosopher; developed Social Contract theory of Government |
| 10. | Thomas Hobbes | English Enlightened philosopher; believed in a strong central government |
| 11. | Leviathan | book written by Thomas Hobbes |
| 12. | Two Treaties on Government | book by John Locke on government structure |
| 13. | Divine Right of Kings | belief by absolute monarchs that God had chosen them to rule |
| 14. | Absolute Rulers | monarchs that had total authority in their countries |
| 15. | English Bill of Rights | signed by William and Mary; gave Parliament ultimate control in England |
| 16. | Philosophe | Enlightenment philosophers in France |
| 17. | Enlightenment | movement begun n France; logic and reason could solve societal problems |
| 18. | Isaac Newton | Enlightened scientist; developed theory and laws of gravity |
| 19. | Denis Dedirot | wrote the first Encyclopedia |
| 20. | Thomas Jefferson | American founding father; wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| 21. | Jean Jacques Rousseau | Enlightened philosopher who preached on the separation of powers |
| 22. | Adam Smith | developed the idea of "laissez-faire" economics |
| 23. | Voltaire | French Enlightened philosophe; often criticized the Catholic Church |
| 24. | Adam Montesquieu | Enlightened philsophe who preached three branches of government |
| 25. | Louis XVI | absolute ruler of France in the early 1600's; the "Sun" King |
| 26. | Old Regime | social structure in France before 1789; made up of three estates |
| 27. | Robespierre | leader of the Reign of Terror phase of the French Revoluation |
| 28. | Reign of Terror | murderous phase of the French Revolution in 1793 |
| 29. | Napoleon Bonaparte | became emperor of France in 1804 |
| 30. | Marie Antoinette | queen of France at the time of the French Revolution |
| 31. | Great Fear | wave of panic that swept the French peasants during the French Revolution |
| 32. | Waterloo | place in Belgium that was Napoleon's final defeat |
| 33. | Continental System | disastrous economic policy of Napoleon |
| 34. | Bastille | French armory; rebellion here began the French Revolution |
| 35. | Peninsulares | upper class in Latin American society; people born in Spain |
| 36. | Creoles | sons and daughters born in Latin American of the Peninsulares |
| 37. | Mestizos | people of Spanish and Latin American Indian descent |
| 38. | Caudillo | Latin American military dictators |
| 39. | Toussaint L'Ouverture | leader of the Haitian Revolution |
| 40. | Bolivar | leader of the revolution in Columbia |
| 41. | San Martin | leader of the revolution in Argentina |
| 42. | Dom Pedro | Mexican Revolutionary leader |
| 43. | Hidalgo | priest who helped begin the revolution in Mexico |
| 44. | Taiping Rebellion | (1850-64) Large scale rebellion against the Qing dynasty and the presence of foreigners in China |
| 45. | Opium War | war between Britain and China in the 1800's |
| 46. | Commodore Matthew Perry | Commodore of the U.S. Navy who compelled the opening of Japan to the West with the Convention of Kanagawa in 1854 |
| 47. | Tokugawa Ieyasu | Shogun of Japan in the 1600's |