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The Enlightenment
a European intellectual movement of the late 17th and 18th centuries emphasizing reason and individualism rather than tradition. It was heavily influenced by 17th-century philosophers such as Descartes, Locke, and Newton, and its prominent exponents include Kant, Goethe, Voltaire, Rousseau, and Adam Smith.
The intellectual revolution of the eighteenth century in which the philosophes stressed reason, natural law, and progress in their criticism of prevailing social injustices.
principles of Enlightenment
Reason, nature, happiness, progress, and liberty.
The Battle of Poitiers was a major English victory against the French in the Edwardian phase of the Hundred's Year War. The battle was fought on September 19, 1356 in Nouaillé, near the city of Poitiers in Aquitaine, western France. An army of English, Welsh, Breton and Gascon troops, many of them veterans of Crécy, led by Edward, the Black Prince, defeated a larger French and allied army led by King John II of France, leading to the capture of the king, his son, and much of the French nobility.
Townsend Acts-were a series of measures,passed by the British Parliament in 1767,that taxed goods imported to the American colonies
Stamp Act-an act regulating stamp duty (a tax on the legal recognition of documents)
Declaratory Acts-an act of the Parliament of Great Britain,which accompanied the repeal of the Stamp Act 1765 and the changing and lessening of the Sugar Act
Proclamation of 1763-The Royal Proclamation of 1763 was issued October 7 1763,by King George lll following Great Britain’s acquisition of French territory in North America after the end of the French and Indian War/Seven Years War
Sugar act-a law passed by the Britain Parliament in 1764 raising duties on foreign refined sugar imported by the colonies so as to give British sugar growers in the West Indies a monopoly on the colonial market
Writs of Assistance-is a written order issued by a court instructing a law enforcement official,such as a sheriff or a tax collector,to perform a certain task.Historically,several types of writs have been called “writs of assistance “
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