American Revolution
Scientists
The Enlightenment
"S"omething for Everyone
Miscellaneous
100
This famous event was the colonists' way of protesting the tax on tea.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
100
Antony van Leeuwenhoek is created with this invention.
What is the microscope?
100
This is another name for the Enlightenment.
What is the Age of Reason?
100
These brought together intellectuals in social gatherings to discuss ideas.
What are salons?
100
The branch of math developed during the time period, it was used to predict the effects of gravity.
What is calculus?
200
It was adopted July 4, 1776, essentially beginning the American Revolution.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
200
He is often called the father of modern chemistry; he was the first chemist to define an element.
Who is Robert Boyle?
200
French Enlightenment thinkers were better known as this.
What are philosophes?
200
The new way of thinking that emerged in the mid-1500s, particularly looking more closely at the natural world and designing experiments to test ideas.
What is the Scientific Revolution?
200
Denis Diderot wrote this in order to promote knowledge.
What is the Encyclopedia?
300
He was named the commanding general of the American army.
Who is George Washington?
300
He was the first scientist to create a complete model of the solar system combining physics, astronomy, and math.
Who is Copernicus?
300
This Enlightenment thinker believed the purpose of the government was to protect people's natural rights.
Who is John Locke?
300
This was passed as a way for colonists to pay some of the costs of the French and Indian War.
What is the Stamp Act?
300
Until the Scientific Revolution, these were the traditional authorities.
What is the Church and ancient scholars?
400
These were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party.
What are the Intolerable Acts?
400
This scientist showed that the planets orbited the sun in an ellipse, not a circle.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
Baron de Montesquieu argued that the best form of government included this.
What is a separation of powers?
400
The exchange between a society and its government.
What is the social contract?
400
This man originally proposed the geocentric theory.
Who is Aristotle?
500
This document, written by Thomas Paine, helped push Americans into war with Great Britain.
What is Common Sense?
500
This man developed the law of universal gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
He was a philosophe who was imprisoned twice and exiled during his lifelong struggle for justice, religious toleration, and liberty.
Who is Voltaire?
500
This book described Galileo's observations.
What is Starry Messenger?
500
The Constitutional Convention of 1787 was called together for this purpose.
What is to revise the Articles of Confederation?
M
e
n
u