VOCAB
The French Revolution
The Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
Other Things You Should Know
100

a form of government in which the executive, legislative, and judicial branches limit and control each other through a system of checks and balances

Separation of Powers

100

The Storming of the Bastille resulted in…

Paris officially falling to the revolution

100

During the Enlightenment period, the goals of the philosophers were to…

change the world!

100

The Scientific Revolution thinker developed the idea of the heliocentric system.

Nicolaus Copernicus

100

What is one of the three influences that lead to the French Revolution? 

Disparities in income, enlightenment ideas, budgetary spending of the government

200

the middle class, including merchants, industrialists, and professional people of France

Bourgeoisie

200

The National Assembly took issue with the relationship between the French monarchy and the…

Catholic Church

200

The idea that people had adopted laws & gov’t in order to preserve their private property was called ___________ by Jean-Jaques Rousseau.

Social Contract

200

the planetary bodies continue in elliptical orbits around the sun because every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called gravity

Universal Law of Gravitation

200

Who was the head of the Committee of Public Safety in the French Paris Commune?

Maximilien Robespierre

300

a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth

Geocentric

300

The government established in France after the overthrow of the Directory in 1799 with Napoleon at its head was known as the…

Consulate

300

The deist theory that God (or a god) had created the universe and then left it to run without his interference and according to its own natural laws.

Clock-workers Theory

300

Johannes Kepler detailed the laws of planetary motion based on the heliocentric system, explaining that planetary motion was not circular but ________________.

Elliptical

300

The document that established the functions of the United States government before the Constitution was known as…

Articles of Confederation

400

a system of thought based on the belief that reason is the chief source of knowledge

Rationalism

400

The French document adopted in 1789 that listed the “natural and imprescriptible rights of man” to “life, liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression.”

Declaration of the Rights of Man

400

What denomination of Christianity was born as a result of the Enlightenment?

Methodist

400

During the Scientific Revolution, there were major breakthroughs in medicine and chemistry, which of the following were apart of those breakthroughs?

Blood flowing through the heart in a circuit

Boyle's Law

Pacal's Law

Naming of chemical elements

400

In order to ensure no country became too powerful, Britian, Prussia, Austria, and France agreed to meet in conferences to discuss common interests and maintain peace in Europe. This conference was known as…

Concert of Europe

500

political philosophy holding that people should be as free as possible from government restraint and that civil liberties – the basic rights of all people – should be protected

Liberalism

500

What two roles did the National Convention of French serve when in power?

Drafting a new constitution & governing body of France
500

What phrase did the philosopher Descartes coin for an explanation of rationalism?

I think therefore I am

500

earth-centered; a system of planetary motion in which the sun, moon, and other planets revolve around the Earth

Geocentric System

500

At the result of the Seven Years War in North America, the English won…

Ohio, Montreal, & the Great Lakes
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