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Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment in Europe
The Enlightenment Spreads
The American Revolution
People
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The idea that the universe is centered around the Earth.
What is geocentric theory?
100
The general belief of the philosophers.
What is progress for society?
100
It was banned by the censors of the Catholic Church.
What is The Encyclopedia?
100
He penned the Declaration of Independence.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
The scientist who proposed the heliocentric, or sun-centered theory.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
200
This is the correct sequence of steps:observation, question, hypothesis, experimentation, conclusion.
What is the scientific process?
200
A description of the idea of a direct democracy, by Thomas Hobbes.
What is The Social Contract?
200
The artistic style of a simple, elegant church.
What is neoclassical style?
200
This gathering occurred after the American Revolution to revise the Articles of the Confederation.
What is The Constitutional Convention?
200
The Scientist that helped develop the scientific method.
Who is Francis Bacon
300
All physical objects are affected equally by the same forces.
What is the law of universal gravitation?
300
Considered Montesquieu's influence on the U.S. Constitution.
What is the Bill of Rights?
300
European art of the 1600's and early 1700's was dominated by this grand, ornate style.
What is baroque?
300
This act caused the American colonists to protest it as "taxation without representation".
What is the Stamp Act?
300
He explained the universal law of gravitation
Who is Isaac Newton?
400
Improvements in medicine and scientific instruments was caused by this.
What is the scientific revolution?
400
Both believed that a monarch should have absolute authority.
Who are Thomas Hobbes and Catherine the Great?
400
This was supported by Frederick II, a.k.a. Frederick the Great, king of Prussia.
What is freedom of worship?
400
Before there were too many British taxes, after there were not enough federal taxes.
How did the taxation problem in America differ before and after independence?
400
He invented the first microscope that allowed Anton Van Leeuwenhoek to observe bacteria and red blood cells for the first time.
Who is Zacharias Janssen?
500
This italian scientist underwent persecution from the Catholic Church for his observations that were later acknowledged as correct.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
500
The Enlightenment promoted a belief in progress, a more secular outlook and this.
What is faith in science?
500
Henry Fielding was a writer that developed many features of this.
What is the modern novel?
500
The Declaration of Indenpendence embodies Enlightenment ideas with this statement.
What are the unalienable rights of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?
500
These were philosophers from England and France that took a keen interest in science and contributed to the scientific revolution with their ideas.
Who were Bacon and Descartes?