The Scientific Revolution
Bacon's process developed to systematically analyze experiments and data
(the reason system OR the scientific method)
What is the scientific method?
Rousseau's concept that an entire society agrees to be governed by the general will
(The Social Contract OR Rationalism)
What is The Social Contract?
type of monarchy in which rulers tried to govern by Enlightenment principles while they kept their royal powers
(Enlightened Absolutism OR Dictatorship)
What is Enlightened Absolutism?
This idea is represented by our three branches of government
(separation of power OR separation of church and state)
What is separation of power?
This person explained what gravity was and how the law of universal gravitation could explain all motion in the universe
(Newton OR Ptolemy)
Who is Newton?
This person advocated for women’s rights by claiming that since the Enlightenment was based on an ideal of reason in all human beings, women should have the same rights as men.
(Mary Wollstonecraft OR Adam Smith)
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
the philosophes view of war
(important or foolish)
What is foolish?
the first 10 amendments to the Constitution
(The Declaration of Independence OR The Bill of Rights)
What is the Bill of Rights?
Copernicus and Kepler both developed this type of model of the universe
(heliocentric OR geocentric)
What is heliocentric?
economic philosophy which holds that the state should not interfere in economic matters
(laissez-faire OR socialism)
What is laissez-faire?
Austrian ruler that abolished serfdom, ended the death penalty, and established the principle of equality of all before the law
(Henry VIII OR Joseph II)
Who is Joseph II?
the author of the Declaration of Independence
(George Washington OR Thomas Jefferson)
Invention that made Galileo's discovery that heavenly bodies are composed of material substance possible
(telescope OR microscope)
What is the telescope?
Unlike earlier in history, the Enlightenment saw increased circulation of newspapers and books directed toward this class
(Upper OR Middle)
What is the Middle class?
This ruler's policy of favoring the landed nobility led to worse conditions for the Russian peasants, resulting in rebellion.
(Frederick II OR Catherine the Great)
Who is Catherine the Great?
In this pamphlet, Paine argued that monarchies had been set up by seizing power from the people and that King George III was a tyrant.
(Paine's Testament OR Common Sense)
What is Common Sense?
this philosophy is based on the belief that reason is the main source of knowledge
(rationalism OR absolutism)
What is rationalism?
John Wesley's new Protestant denomination that influenced the abolition of the slave trade in the early 1800s
(Calvinism OR Methodism)
What is Methodism?
The first major war of the middle 17th century was started over this event
(Austrian succession OR Russian invasion)
What is Austrian succession?
states that “...all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.”
(The Declaration of Independence OR The Bill of Rights)
What is the Declaration of Independence?