Bacon
Descartes
American Revolution
French Revolution
Mixed
100
The method of reasoning he advocated
What is inductive reasoning
100
The method of reasoning he advocated
What is deductive reasoning
100
The document signed on July 4, 1776 by the Continental Congress that proclaimed the American goals after the start of the revolution
What is the Declaration of Independence
100
The source of the huge debt France had acquired by the 1780s
What is France's support of the American Revolution
100
The issue that the American colonists had with Great Britain that led to the American Revolution
What are taxes
200
The philosopher/philosophy that Bacon rejected
Who are Aristotle and the Scholastics
200
The tool that he believed was the key to understanding nature
What is mathematics
200
The three main rights of man as described in the Declaration of Independence
What are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
200
The reigning king at the start of the revolution
Who is Louis XVI
200
The time period that the political revolutions took place
What are the 18th and 19th centuries
300
What he equated knowledge with
What is power
300
Descartes' necessary first step to finding the truth
What is doubting everything (skepticism)
300
The section of the Constitution that limited the government's role in everyday life
What is the Bill of Rights
300
The period of time when suspected enemies of the revolution were executed
What is the Reign of Terror
300
The law code that took away the rights that women gained during the French Revolution
What is the Napoleonic Code
400
Descartes is to rationalism as Bacon is to ____
What is empiricism
400
His reliance on self-awareness is summed up in this famous quote
What is "I think, therefore I am."
400
The two groups of people that were denied, or limited in, their rights as addressed in the Constitution
Who are slaves and women
400
The moderate republic formed in 1795 that shared power between two legislative houses and five directors (overthrown in 1799 by Napoleon Bonaparte)
What is the Directory
400
The style of ruling in which the government is not very involved in public life
What is laissez-faire
500
He was the spokesperson for this group of people who believed the future of science lay in rejecting certain past philosophies
Who are the "experimenters"
500
The text in which he published his own scientific method
What is Discourse on Method
500
The location of where the war began in April 1775
What is Massachusetts
500
The name of the institution formed by the middle-class representatives who left the Estates-General
What is the National Constituent Assembly
500
The time period of the Philosophical Revolution
What is 1550-1700
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