Vocabulary
A social gathering of intellectuals and artists, like those held in the homes of wealthy women in Paris and other European cities during the Enlightenment
What is a salon?
Edited and published the Encyclopedia
Who is Denis Diderot?
Commander in Chief of the Continental Army?
Who is George Washington?
Measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from dominating the others
What is checks and balances?
This is the fear of spiders
What is Arachnophobia?
Relating to a grand, ornate style that characterized European painting, music, and architecture in the 1600s and early 1700s
What is Baroque?
Composed classical music
Who is Franz Joseph Haydn, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and Ludwig van Beethoven?
This country provided 100,000 muskets to the Continental Army and naval support to fight the British
Who is France?
The first ten amendments to the US constitution
What are the Bill of Rights?
Identify the 3 bears in the story "Goldilocks and the Three Bears."
Who is Papa Bear, Mama Bear, and Baby Bear?
Relating to a simple, elegant style (based on ideas and themes from ancient Greece and Rome) that characterized the arts in Europe during the late 1700s
What is Neoclassical?
The Declaration of Independence was written by this founding father
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This is what the American colonists protested as "taxation without representation"?
What is the Stamp Act?
Ruled Russia as an enlightened despot
Who is Frederick the Great?
The Roman Goddess of love and beauty
Who is Venus?
One of the 18th century European monarchs who was inspired by Enlightenment ideas to rule justly and respect the rights of subjects
What is an enlightened despot?
The daughter of a German prince, she ruled Russia from 1762 - 1796
Who is Catherine the Great?
In 1773, to protest an import tax, a group of colonists dumped a large load of this into the Boston Harbor
What is Tea?
On April 19, 1775, British soldiers and American militiamen exchanged gunfire on the village green in Lexington _______________.
What is Massachusetts?
This US state is known as the Cornhusker state
What is Nebraska?
A statement of the reasons for the American colonies' break with Britain, approved by the Second Continental Congress in 1776.
What is the Declaration of Independence
The Bill of Rights was influenced by this Enlightened Thinker
Who is Voltaire?
When King George III paid little attention to colonists complaints, the colonies decided to form this which lead to the creation of the Declaration of Independence
What is the Second Continental Congress?
He was the King of Great Britain during the American Revolution
Who was King George III?
This is the world's largest island
What is Greenland?