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| Enlightenment | a period during the 1600s and 1700s when reason was used to guide people's thoughts about society,politics,and philosophy |
| secular | non-religious |
| Voltaire | 1694-1778 Philosopher mocked government and religion in his writings spoke out against censorship |
| salon | a social gathering held to discuss ideas during the Enlightenment |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | argued that women should have the same rights as men |
| John Locke | In 1690,he published Two Treatises on Government |
| natural rights | the belief that developed during the Enlightenment that people had certain rights,such as the right to life,liberty,and property |
| Charles-Louis Montesquieu | 1689-1755 the powers of government should be separated into separate branches |
| Jean-Jacques Rousseau | 1712-1778 governments should express the will of the people |
| popular sovereignty | the Enlightenment idea that governments should express the will of the people |
| Benjamin Franklin | 1766 philosopher and scientist went to London.There he addressed the House of Commons in Parliament |
| Thomas Jefferson | was a farmer,and scholar scientist.He had been influenced by the Scientific Revolution. |
| English Bill of Rights | a document aproved in 1689 that listed rights for Parliament and the English people and drew on the principles of Magna Carta |
| Declaration of Independence | a document written in 1776 that declared the American colonies'independence from British rule |
| Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen | a document written in France in 1789 that guaranteed specific freedoms for French citizens |
