APWH Unit 5

A philosophical movement which started in Europe in the 1700's and spread to the colonies. It emphasized reason and the scientific method.

• Russian Revolution

• Renaissance

• House of Wisdom

• Enlightenment

An Enlightenment concept; an agreement between the people and their government signifying their consent to be governed;

• Magna Carta

• Natural Rights

• Social Contract

• Minimum wage laws

granted to all people by nature or God that cannot be denied or restricted by any government or individual; Often discussed by Enlightenment thinker John Locke as life, liberty, and property

• Social Contract

• Natural Rights

• French Revolution

• Branches of Government

sense of commonality based on language, religion, ideas, and territory; that fosters a sense of unity

• Feminism

• Patriarchy

• Nation State

• Nationalism

English writer and early feminist who denied male supremacy and advocated equal education for women; wrote A Vindication of the Rights of Women, a famous feminist document in 1792

• Mary Wollstonecraft

• John Locke

• Baron de Montesquieu

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton

the right to vote in political elections

• suffrage

• suffering

• suppering

• spring

Most important reform of Russian Czar Alexander II; 1861-1865

• end of communism

• end of Mongol Rule

• end of magna carta

• end of serfdom

American 1776 statement, steeped with Enlightenment ideas, explaining why the colonies wanted autonomy from Britain.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Declaration of Independence

• Universal Declaration of rights

• Human rights

Adopted August 26, 1789, statement of fundamental political rights adopted by the French National Assembly at the beginning of the French Revolution.

• Declaration of the Rights of Man

• Declaration of independence

• Estates General

• Reigh of Terror

A was a document written by South American revolutionary leader Simon Bolivar where he famously expanded his views on the independence movements against mother country Spain

• Haiti Letter

• Letter from Birmingham Jail

• Jamaica Letter

• US Constitution