Sources
This kind of source comes from somebody/something that was there at the time. A first hand account/direct connection
What is a Primary Source
This is the thing that most people got their beliefs from before the Scientific Revolution
What is the church?
These are things that everyone has and Enlightenment thinkers felt it was necessary for government to protect them (John Locke)
What are natural rights?
This is the thing that everyone has with their government, and if the government breaks it than we have the right to break from the government.
What is Social Contract?
This US document is considered the breakup letter from England
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This kind of sources comes from someone/something that was NOT there at the time
What is a Secondary Source?
The thing that Copernicus discovered that started the Scientific Revolution
What is the Sun is actually in the center and the Earth revolves around it? (Heliocentric)
This invention helped spread Enlightenment idea by allowing books and newspapers to be made
What is the printing press?
The Declaration of Independence starts with "All men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." This quotes reflects an Enlightenment idea by John Locke
What is Natural Rights?
This is the economic system that came during and after the Enlightenment, emphasis on free trade and hands off government, and benefitting big business:
What is Capitalism?
A textbook is an example of this
What is a secondary source?
Galileo discovered that other planets have moons, the sun has spots, and planets are not perfectly smooth. This happened to him as a result of these discoveries
What is the catholic church punished him for heresy for going against the church?
The Enlightenment wanted to shift power away from absolute rulers and the church and give more power to...
The people
The founding fathers did not want any one person/group of people to get too powerful, so they included this concept in the US Constitution
What is separation of powers/checks and balances?
Enlightenment thinkers felt as though a governments power should come from this
When checking a source you must check its reliability/credibility. This test helps to determine how reliable a source may be
What is the CRAAP test?
Instead of just believing in the church, people began basing their beliefs in these things (3 things)
What is Observation, reason, and logic?
This is the economic system that was popular before the Enlightenment, characterized by heavy government control over trade
What is Mercantilism?
This Enlightenment idea comes from Voltaire and is present in the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights
What is Freedom of Speech/Religion
This is a reason scientists in the Scientific Revolution may have been hesitant to publish their findings
What is the church may punish them/went against the church?
Sometimes an author for a source may be for or against something, and it will effect how they write about something. This is the thing we must check for when reviewing a source
What is an author's bias?
This is potentially the most important thing to come out of the Scientific Revolution, it is the way we do science today.
What is the Scientific Method?
What is Secular?
The reason why we can consider the Enlightenment contradictory
What is it led to freedom for some, but slavery for others
The American Revolution was motivated by this Enlightenment idea primarily (found in the preamble of the Declaration of Independence)
What is All men are created equal?