Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment Thinker
Enlightenment Spreads
American Revolution
Thinkers
100

This man created the law of universal gravitation

Isaac Newton

100

This man said government gets power from the people

John Locke

100

These articles angered the French government and the Catholic Church

Encyclopedia

100

This was the reason for British taxes on the American colonists

War Debts

100

American leaders feared this because of the uneducated people in the United States

Democracy

200

Boyle's law reveals interaction of volume, temperature and this

Gas Pressure

200

This philosophe favored individual freedom and direct democracy

Jacques Rousseau

200

This novel by Samuel Richardson was the first true English novel

Pamela

200

This man wrote the Declaration of Independence based on ideas of Locke

Thomas Jefferson

200

This was the name of gatherings where thinkers discuss ideas

Salons

300

This Polish cleric developed the heliocentric theory

Nicolaus Copernicus

300

This was the name of French social critics in the mid-1700s

Philosophes

300

This woman argued women needed quality education to be virtuous and useful

Mary Wollstonecraft

300

This resulted in a weak national government in the early years of the United States

Articles of Confederation

300

This man distrusted humans and favored strong government to keep order

Thomas Hobbes

400

Isaac Newton believed God was this

A Clockmaker

400

This is the theory of agreement by free people to form government

Social Contract

400

This Austrian ruler allowed freedom of worship and the press

Joseph II

400

This act restricted trade for the American colonists

Navigation Act

400

This man published worked based on tolerance and reason and also helped Joseph II with poetry

Voltaire

500

This is the theory that the moon, sun, and planets revolve around the earth

Geocentric Theory

500

This was a movement stressing reason and thought

Enlightenment

500

This city was the center of the Enlightenment during the 1700s

Paris

500

This British surrendered to the Americans at this city in 1781, which ended the Revolutionary War

Yorktown

500

This Russian female leader was involved in the Enlightenment and helped expand the Russian Empire

Catherine the Great

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