American Revolution
England was in debt. Colonies were required to pay taxes.
What were the causes of the American Revolution?
Tried to promote Catholicism; dissolved Parliament
King James, II
During this revolution, farmers and city workers stopped working by hand and began to use machines.
What is the Industrial Revolution?
College Dropout
Discovered 4 moons orbiting Jupiter.
Venus went through complete phases - indicating the planets traveled around the sun
Who was Galileo?
A king or queen holds unlimited power.
What is absolute power?
Document written by Thomas Jefferson. It resembled a break up letter.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
In 1688, _________ removed King James and invited Mary and William to take his place.
What was Parliament?
Each person in a factory has a small job they do over and over and as each person does their job the product is completed.
What is an assembly line?
Invented calculus
Discovered the three laws of motion:
An object at rest will stay at rest, and an object in motion will stay in motion unless a force acts on it.
Force equals mass times acceleration
For every action, there is an opposite reaction and forces come in pairs.
Who was Isaac Newton?
Monarch believed their power was given to them by God.
What is divine right?
I was the main writer of the Declaration of Independence.
Who was Thomas Jefferson?
Guaranteed Civil Liberties are found in this document?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
Each person in a factory has a specialized job they do over and over.
What is specialization of labor?
Without a strong central authority to keep order, life would be “nasty, brutish and short.”
Said kings were justified in seizing absolute power because only they could act impartially to maintain order in society.
Who was Thomas Hobbes?
1. Grew the Spanish Empire
2. An absolute ruler
3. Built a large army
Who was King Phillip II?
Stated the reasons why the colonies wanted to separate from England.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
Reaffirming Parliament's Power and Restoring a Protestant Monarch
What were the goals of the Glorious Revolution?
When one thing in a factory can be made many times cheaply.
What is mass production?
Considered women to be weak, but valuable participants in political process
Approved of slavery and the natural inequality of the races
Three branches of government.
Separation of powers essential to stop abuse and corruption=Checks and Balances
Three types of government….
Who was Baron de Montesquieu?
Expanded France's frontiers. Demanded that the Protestants convert to Catholicism or leave France.
Who was Louis XIV?
Life, liberty, and pursuit of happiness.
What are inalienable rights?
What is the English Bill of Rights?
When people during the industrial revolution began to move off of farms and into cities.
What is urbanization?
German Astronomer and Mathematician.
Supported Copernicus’ heliocentric theory (sun at the center of the universe)
Planets moved in an oval-shaped orbit called an ellipse.
Who was Johannes Kepler?
Ruled by a monarch whose power is limited. Monarch shared power with the Parliament and citizens have more rights.
Constitutional Monarchy