Terms
What is the Scientific Method?
The scientific Method is a logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas.
Who was the author of the decoration of dependence?
Thomas Jefferson
"Faith in science and in progress produced a third out
come, the rise of _____."
(Hint can mean "single; separate.")
Individualism
"Parliament passed the _____. According to this law, colonialist had to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed material."
Stamp Act
Around what time did the Scientific Revolution Begin?
A. 1500 B. 1400 C. 1590 D. 1700
A. 1500
What were social Critics of the mid 1700's were known as what?
Philosophes (French for Philosophers)
Who discovered Gravity?
Sir Isaac Newton
"Before the Scientific Revolution, people accepted the mysteries of the universe as the workings of ___."
God
What was one of the main causes of the REVOLUTION. (Hint: What war happened before the revolution)
After the french and Indian war, Britain had huge dept. "Because American colonists benefited from Britain's victory, Britain expected the colonists to help pay the cost of the war."
What book is considered to be the first true English novel?
(Hint, it is written by c)
Pamela
What is a Salon?
A social gathering the hostesses held in the 1700's
Who was an Italian scientist who built on the new theories about astronomy?
Galileo Galilei
"During the _____, reason took the center stage."
Enlightenment
Why did the colonists get mad about taxes?
The colonists had no representation for taxes.
"No taxation without representation."
Galileo Galilei shattered which Greek philosophers theory about the moon and stars?
Aristotle's Theory
What is the artistic style that was popular in the 1700's (Hint they borrowed ideas from classical Greece and Rome.)
Neoclassical
Who asserted that people had the right to rebel again an unjust ruler?
John Locke
"The Enlightenment views expressed in the articles soon angered both the French government and the Catholic Church." What did the censors do about the articles?
"Their censors banned the work."
what was the Navigation Act?
"This and subsequent trade laws prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britain."
Who had the largest signature on the Declaration of Independence?
John Hancock
"European art of the 1600's and early 1700's had been dominated by the style called _____, which was characterized by a gran, ornate design."
Baroque
What was Francius Marie Arouet's pen name?
Voltaire
"During the Enlightenment, a new, lighter, and more elegant style of music known as _____ emerged."
classical
Congress formally added to the Constitution the ten amendments known as the _____
Bill of Rights
Give ALL the steps to the scientific method in order.
1. It begins with a PROBLEM or QUESTION arising from and OBSERVATION
2. Scientists next form a hypothesis, or unproved assumption.
3. The hypothesis is then tested in an experiment or on the basis of data.
4. The final step, scientist analyze and interpret their data to reach a new conclusions. That either confirms or disproves the hypothesis.