Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
American Revolution
French Rev.
Latin Amer. Rev.
100
This theory was proposed by Nicolas Copernicus.
What is the heliocentric theory.
100
The Enlightenment is also known as _____________ because of people applying their logic and use of reason to ideas about the government.
What is the Age of Reason?
100
In the 1770s the goal of this revolution was to break free from Great Britain due to over taxation and no representation in British Parliamnet.
What is the American Revolution?
100
In this revolution, the people wanted to create a new government that would protect their natural rights, unlike their previous government, an absolute monarchy under Louis XVI.
What is the French Revolution.
100
The goal of these wars of independence were to break free from Spain (and France).
What are Latin American Revolutions.
200
This time period is known as a time of great change in science and math and when people challenge the church's response to life's questions.
What is the Scientific Revolution.
200
This Enlightenment thinker was the most influential in his ideas that all people have NATURAL RIGHTS of life, liberty, and property. Also, it is a government's job to protect these rights, otherwise the people should overthrow the government.
Who is John Locke?
200
This Enlightenment thinker made the American colonists aware of their natural rights and that they should take action since Great Britain was not recognizing or protecting them.
Who is John Locke?
200
This was the name of the social structure in France before the revolution, with power and wealth being held by the clergy and nobles, while the bourgeoise (middle class) and peasantry paid all the taxes, but held little power.
What are the Three Estates?
200
The Latin American Revolution aka Wars of Independence looked to these two previous revolutions as successful exmpales.
What are the American and French Revolutions.
300
These two thinkers are credited with helping to create and define the step by step process of experimentation and observation.
Who are Francis Bacon and Rene Descartes.
300
These three Enlightenment thinkers can be seen in the American Constution and the French document, THE DECLARATION OF THE RIGHTS OF MAN AND CITIZEN, with their ideas such as separation of powers, freedom of expression, and majority rule.
Who are Montesquieu, Voltaire, and Rousseau?
300
This American document was a declaration by the American colonists that they were going to break free from Great Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence.
300
These were the ________________ of the Revoluton, such as poor harvests, high taxes, a weak monarchy, debt from foreign wars, Enlightenment ideas, and the example of the Americans.
What are Causes of the French Revolution.
300
These three generals all led a military fight against their colonial rulers like France and Spain.
Who are Toussaint L'Ouverture, Simon Bolivar, and Miguel Hildalgo?
400
These two individuals helped prove (with a telescope) and explain (laws of gravity and motion) why the heliocentric theory worked.
Who are Galileo Galilei and Isaac Newton.
400
This Enlightenment thinker was the only female and she believed that a woman's first duty was to be a good mother, but that all children, both boys and girls needed to be educated.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
400
The Declaration of Independence and the Constitution reflect Enlightenment ideas from these thinkers with ideas such as separation of powers, checks and balances, and freedom of expression.
Who are Montesquieu and Voltaire?
400
This event started the French Revolution, even though the peasants were unsuccessful at acquiring weapons and this event was the most violent phase of the revolution led by Maximillion Robespierre and heavy use of the guillotine.
What are the Storming of the Bastille and Reign of Terror?
400
These two leaders of independence movements in Mexico, were both part of the clergy and unfortunately were captured and executed.
Who are Father Hildalgo and Jose Morelos?
500
This event helped started the Scientific Revolution by creating a questioning a spirit in people around Europe.
What is the Renaissance (humanism).
500
These absolute rulers, known as ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS, believed in using some ideas of the Enlightenment thinkers while they were ruling.
Who are Maria Theresa, Joseph II, and Catherine the Great?
500
The success of the American Revolution greatly influened revolutions in these two parts of the world.
What are France and Latin America?
500
The effects of the French Revolution are that Napoleon came to restore stability and order to France, but more importantly that the ___________________ aka the "middle class" gained more political power.
What is the bourgeoisie?
500
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