The Scientific Revolution
Studied the moon through a special telescope he built for the purpose.
Who is Galileo?
The principles of life, liberty, and property.
What are natural rights?
Britain's rise to global prominence.
What is trade and commerce?
Social classes during the French Revolution.
What are estates?
Explained that all matter was composed of tiny particles that behave in knowable ways.
Who is Robert Boyle?
King of Prussia from 1740 to 1786.
Who is Frederick the Great?
Forced the surrender of a British army at Yorktown, Virginia.
Who is George Washington?
The three classes of the estate.
What is the Clergy, the Nobility, and the middle class to Peasantry?
Proposed the heliocentric theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
The enlightenment slogan "free and equal" did not apply to who?
Who were woman?
Taxed items such as newspapers and pamphlets.
What is the Stamp Act?
The "Great Fear."
Dutch Inventor who perfected the single-lens microscope.
Who is Anton Van Leeuwenhoek?
Who is Adam Smith?
In March 1770, British soldiers in Boston opened fire on a crowd that was pelting them with stones and snowballs.
What is the Boston Massacre?
They swore "never to separate and to meet whenever the circumstances might require until we have established a sound and just constitution."
What is the Tennis Court Oath?
Steps of the Scientific method.
What is state the problem, gather information, form a hypothesis, experiment, collect and analyze data, draw conclusions, and communicate and share data?
Restricting access to ideas and information.
What is censorship?
Representatives from 12 colonies gathered in Philadelphia in 1774.
What is the First Continental Congress?
Set up a limited monarchy in place of the absolute monarchy that had ruled France for centuries and allowed citizens to speak, publish, and write ideas with fear of government censorship.
What is the Constitution of 1791?