Second Semester History 8
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- Dislike by many because he was Roman Catholic
- James II
- In 1688, Parliament asked _______ and his wife ________ to become rulers of England
- William and his wife Mary II
- William and Mary were what religion?
- Protestant
- Mary II was the daughter of ?
- James II
- Did _______ and __________ accept the offer to become rulers of England?
- Yes..William and Mary
- Who fled the country when _____ and _____ accepted the offer to rule England?
- James fled the county when William and Mary II accepted the offer to rule England
- Event was called the ______________ _________ because there wasno bloodshed
- Glorious Revolution
- Event showed that Parliament was more piowerful than the monach
- Glorious Revolution
- At the same time, Parliament passed the ____ __ ________ which increased Parliament's powers and the rights of the people
- Bill of Rights
- Name the two England political parties
- Whigs and Tories
- Wanted monarch to have more power than Parliament
- Tories
- Wanted Parliament to have more power than the monarch
- Whigs
- England was now a _________ ___________ _________
- limited constitutional monarchy
- Define limited constitutional monarchy
- Monarch's powers limited by the constitution
- British constitution, unlike the U.S. one, is not a ________ ________
- single document
- Today, the real head of the British governmentis the ______ _________
- prime minister
- England's 13 colonies in America began fighting for independence (Name event)
- American Revolution
- Who won the American Revolution?
- the colonies...duh....yeah...
- Beginning the the 1500's, new ideas emerged in science
- Scientific Revolution
- Well-known scientists
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1. Copernicus
2. Galileo - Believed that the earth rotated around the sun rather than the sun rotating around the earth
- Copernicus
- Believed the teachings of Copernicus
- Galileo
- Known for his work with telescopes
- Galileo
- Isaac Newton wrote about the law of ______
- gravity
- Also called the Age of Reason
- Age of Enlightment
- Important philosophers during this period dealt with question:
- Whatis the best type of government
- Believed that the man had three basic rights: __ _____ and ____
- life, liberty and property (John Locke)
- he believed in a contract theory of government (defn
- government must protect these three rights
- who believed that the government must protect the three basic rights of man?
- Johne Locke
- If a government does not protect these rights, it is broken the contract with the people, and the people should ______ it
- overthrow
- Many of Locke's ideas were used in writing the
- Declaration of Independence
- Promoted the idea of "separation of powers" in goverment
- Montesquieu
- Frenchman
- Montesquieu
- "Separation of powers"
- Goverment separated into 3 branches
- Nane the three different branches of a separation of powers government
- legislative, executive, judicial
- said that each branch should check on the other two branches
- Montesquieu
- the balancing of the three branches is called
- "checks and balances"
- "checks and balances" would help
- prevent any of the 3 branches from gaining too much power
- his ideas were used in the US constitution
- Montesquieu (LOCKE'S was in the Declaration of Independence)
- Emphasized freedom of speech
- Voltaire
- supposedly said" i disapprove of what you have to saym but i will defend to the death your right to say it"
- Voltaire
- said "man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains"
- Rousseau
- said people shoudl control their own government (democracy)
- Rousseau
- define "deists:
- Believed God created man but that he was not concerned with man's dialy life..God was like a watchmaker that made the workd and then letit run itself
- 1588
- defeat of the spanish armada
- 1688
- Glorious Revolution
- late 1600's -1700's
- Age of Enlightment