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| Battle of Yorktown | final battle of the American Revolution |
| Battle of Lexington and Concord | first battle of the American Revolution |
| France | country that helped Americans in the Revolutionary War |
| George Washington | leader of the colonial army during the Revolutionary War |
| Treaty of Paris | peace treaty that ended the American Revolutionary WAr |
| Thomas Jefferson | wrote the Declaration of Independence |
| Constitution | document that explains how the government will work |
| Declaration of Independence | document that explained the reasons why the colonies wanted to separate from Great Britain |
| Boston Tea Party | colonists protested taxes by dumping tea into the harbor |
| Boston Massacre | 5 colonists were killed by British soldiers |
| French and Indian War | Great Britain raised taxes in the colonies to pay for this |
| Enlightenment | this event influenced the American Revolution |
| revolution | a change |
| government | A country’s system of laws and the way decisions are made |
| 3 types of unlimited government | Absolute monarchy, oligarchy and dictatorship |
| Absolutism | Another word for absolute monarchy; King or Queen inherits the job and makes all decisions. |
| Montesquieu’s ideas about government | The power of government should be divided into 3 branches so that no one person has too much power |
| Constitutional monarchy | King or Queen inherits the job and only make some decisions. Citizens vote on representatives who make some decisions. |
| Absolute monarchy | Another word for absolutism; King or Queen inherits the job and makes all decisions |
| Voltaire’s beliefs about government | Freedom of speech and religion |
| 2 types of limited governmen | constitutional monarchy and democracy |
| Divine Right | The belief that God chose a person to rule so their authority cannot be questioned |
| Dictatorship | The leader gets power and enforces laws by using military force. |
| Democracy | Leader is elected. Citizens help make decisions by voting. |
| Rousseau’s ideas about government | The leader must base decisions on “majority rule” – therefore the leader is limited to only what the majority of citizens want |
| John Locke’s ideas about government | the government protects the rights of the people including the right to life, liberty, and the right to own property. If the government does not protect the rights of the people, they can abolish the government and create a new one |
| heresy | Beliefs that go against the teachings of the church |
| Francis Bacon | developed the scientific method |
| Johannes Kepler | added that the planets move in elliptical orbits |
| Galileo | used an improved telescope to prove that Copernicus' theory was correct |
| Copernicus | first proposed the heliocentric theory of the universe |
