Believed that the purpose of government is to protect rights and also believed that if a ruler took away people’s natural
rights then people had the right to revolt and set up a new government.
Who is John Locke?
100
Scientist that believed that the sun was the center of the universe.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
100
Explorer who explored the St. Lawrence River.
Who is Jacques Cartier?
100
The buying and selling of goods in large amounts over long distances.
What is commerce?
100
This is where the largest protests had taken place because American colonists were upset about the new taxes and because of this the british had to send more troops to this place.
What is Boston, Massachusetts?
200
In this book, The Spirit of Laws, he said that England’s government was the best because it had a separation of powers.
Who is Baron Montesquieu?
200
A scientist who believed planets move in eclipses, or oval paths.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
200
First European to sail around the south of Africa and reach India.
Who is Vasco da Gama?
200
The business of selling large amount of items over long distances created a new type of businessperson.
What are entrepreneurs?
200
A series of laws formed by Great Britain to control the trade.
What are Navigation Acts?
300
He was known for his strong dislike of the Roman Catholic Church.
Who is Voltaire?
300
Used a microscope to discover the smallest structures of living material, called cells.
Who is Robert Hooke?
300
First European to sail west searching for a water route to Asia.
Who is Christopher Columbus?
300
Sometimes projects were so large that entrepreneurs had to come together and form this.
What is a joint-stock company?
300
Some of the items that were taxed by the British.
What are newspapers, printed material, taxes on glass, lead, paper, paint, and tea?
400
He published an Encyclopedia included a wide range of topics, such as science, religion, government, and the arts. Many articles from this were against superstition and supported freedom of religion.
Who is Denis Diderot?
400
Made a law that explained that the force of gravity holds the entire solar system together by keeping the sun and the planets in their orbits, called the universal law of gravitation.
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
Explorer who explored the Hudson River and Hudson Bay.
Who is Henry Hudson?
400
The idea that a country gains power by building up its supply of gold and silver.
What is Mercantilism?
400
The British destroyed a weapon store in this city and it was the cause to the first battle of the American Revolution.
What is Concord?
500
Believed that supporters of the Enlightenment relied too much on reason and instead wanted people should pay more attention to their feelings.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
500
Improved instruments such as the telescope which proved Copernicus theory correct.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
Explorer who named the vast sea Pacific Ocean because it was so peaceful, or pacific.
Who is Ferdinand Magellan?
500
Mercantilists also thought countries should set up these so the people there could produce goods which their country does not have at home. That way, the home country will not have to import those goods from other countries.