Modern World History Vocab 6.2

a grand, ornate style that characterized Euro. arts in the 1600s and early 1700s.

government in which power is divided between a central authority and a # of individual states

measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others

writer who called for opportunities for women, and for women to enter medicine and politics.

a statement of the reasons for the American colonies’ break with Britain

a simple, elegant style that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s.

18th-century Euro. monarchs inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly

Czarina of Russia, she introduced reforms that extended Peter’s policy of “westernization. ”

American statesman; 3rd president of the US; Declaration’s main author and one of its signers.

a formal summary of the rights and liberties believed essential for the people