Match the following items.
1.a formal document granting special rights or privileges to a person or company
2.a farm of many acres, worked by slaves or servants
3.english protestants who tried to simplify rituals in the church of england
4.a group of protestants who wanted to separate from the church of england

plantation
separatists
charter
puritans

1. international: struggle for hegemony and empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state

2. political conflict: conflict between the monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy.

3. the enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism, one variant of which was laid out in montequieu’s spirit of the laws; introduces new notions of good government, the most radical being popular sovereignty, as in rousseau’s social contract [1762]; the attack on the regime and privileged class by the literary underground of “grub street; ” the broadening influence of public opinion.

4. social antagonisms between two rising groups: the aristocracy and the bourgeoisie

5. ineffective ruler: louis xvi

6. economic hardship, especially the agrarian crisis of 1788-89 generates popular discontent and disorders caused by food shortages.

the puritans were a group of people who grew discontent in the church of england the common unity strengthened the community.