Scientific Revolution
What is the scientific revolution?
question prior knowledge and start to rely on experience and logic to make judgments
What caused the American Revolution?
Boston tea party
taxation without representation
stamp act
sugar act
upset at government
What term can be defined as "the power to do or choose what you want to"?
- brutality
- liberty
- equality
- fraternity
Liberty
Why do revolutions occur?
- people are unhappy
- america tax with no representation
- lack of power
What is the Declaration of Independence?
When America declared their freedom from Great Britain ?
What state did commoners belong to?
Third estate
Who is Galileo?
Invented telescope to look at sky.
Which fact best supports the claim that the Declaration of Independence was influenced by the Enlightenment ?
All people have the right life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
What did The American and French Revolution have in common?
sought to get decrease the power of the king
What did John Locke believe?
Everyone is born with the same rights no matter if they are rich or poor.
What did the enlightenment and scientific revolution have in common?
or that they are similar because both challenged old ways of thinking about the world
Why do revolutions occur?
People are unhappy with the government
America Boston tea party
French unhappy as well because poor more taxed
enlightenment push them to think of more things
She said, "Let them eat cake!"
Who is Marie Antoinette? (Queen)