Enlightenment, Empires, & the Road to the Revolution
Vocabulary
Fill in the Blank
Cause & Effect
Trivia
100
Scientists challenged this old model that placed Earth at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric model?
100
An economic system based on private ownership, investment, and competition for profit.
What is capitalism?
100
Scientists discovered that planetary paths are ______ rather than perfectly circular.
What is elliptical?
100
Observation and reason challenged accepted scientific ideas, helping inspire people to apply reason to this broader movement.
What is the Enlightenment?
100
This place became important during the French & Indian War.
What is Fort Pitt?
200
Enlightenment thinkers took the use of reason and applied it to these areas of human life.
What are government, rights, and society?
200
Citizens trained to serve as soldiers when needed.
What is a militia?
200
The ______ punished religious dissent in Europe.
What is the Inquisition?
200
Britain’s expenses after the French & Indian War led it to increase these in the colonies.
What are taxation and control?
200
Colonists who continued supporting Britain were known by this name.
Who were the Loyalists?
300
This war changed the balance of power in North America and left Britain with major costs and new territory to manage.
What is the French & Indian War?
300
Refusing to buy or use something as a form of protest.
What is a boycott?
300
England briefly became a ______ rather than a monarchy.
What is a Commonwealth?
300
Colonial boycotts sometimes pressured Britain into doing this to unpopular policies.
What is repealing them?
300
Colonists who increasingly supported independence were known by this name.
Who were the Patriots?
400
After the French & Indian War, Britain kept one of these in the colonies and increased taxes and trade rules.
What is a standing army?
400
Exclusive control over the sale or supply of a good or service.
What is a monopoly?
400
British soldiers who fought alongside colonial militia were called ______.
Who were the Redcoats?
400
Repeated disputes over taxes, laws, and protests gradually had this effect on the relationship between Britain and the Patriots.
What is deepening the political break?
400
This introductory part of an important political document helped frame colonial arguments about government and rights.
What is the Preamble?
500
Enlightenment ideas about natural rights combined with increasing British control and colonial protest to push many colonists toward this goal.
What is independence?
500
This Enlightenment thinker argued that people have natural rights and that government depends on the consent of the governed.
Who is John Locke?
500
Colonial complaints increasingly described abusive or unjust government as ______.
What is tyranny?
500
John Locke’s ideas about rights combined with British taxation and control to help create arguments for this.
What is revolution or independence?
500
Lists of these presented specific complaints against British rule.
What are grievances?