A system for investigating and proving observations about the natural world, developed by Bacon & Descartes.
What is the scientific method?
100
The only Enlightenment philosopher to focus on improving the rights of women.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
100
This social gathering helped to promote the ideas of the Enlightenment.
What is a salon?
100
He wrote the Declaration of Independence
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
100
This type of art, architecture and music was popular in Europe during the 1600 & early 1700's, and reflected a grand, ornate style.
What is Baroque?
200
Proposed by Copernicus, this theory suggested that the earth revolved around the sun.
What is the heliocentric theory?
200
In the "Leviathan", Thomas Hobbes supported the idea of this type of government.
What is an absolute monarchy?
200
Like this philosopher, Frederick II of Prussia believed people should be free to choose their religion.
Who is Voltaire?
200
The colonists protested this tax by boycotting all British goods.
What is the Stamp Act (1765)?
200
The style made popular in the Enlightenment, emphasizing simple and elegant designs.
What is neoclassical?
300
Name two scientific instruments developed in the scientific revolution.
What are the telescope, the microscope, the mercury barometer, & the mercury thermometer?
300
Montesquieu proposed this idea, which became a part of the U.S. Constitution.
What is the separation of powers?
300
Influenced by Enlightenment philosophers, this monarch tried to reform Russia.
Who is Catherine the Great?
300
After the American Revolution,this convinced the Founding Fathers of the need to rewrite the Articles of Confederation.
What is Shay's Rebellion?
300
He developed the first vaccination for smallpox.
Who is Edward Jenner?
400
He proved mathematically that the earth and other planets revolved around the sun in an elliptical orbits.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
400
This philosopher wrote "The Social Contract", proposing the idea of a direct democracy.
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
400
These writers helped to develop the ideas and structure of the modern novel.
Who are Henry Fielding and Samuel Richardson?
400
These 3 philosophers influenced the Bill of Rights.
Who are Voltaire, Locke, & Rousseau?
400
He argued against abuse in the justice system, and believed that laws should preserve social order, not avenge crimes.
Who is Beccaria?
500
He developed the Law of Universal Gravitation, the idea that all physical objects are affected by the same forces and that each object is attracted to every other object.
Who is Isaac Newton?
500
He is the only philosopher whose ideas contradict the government established by the U.S. Constitution.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
500
This book was one of the first ways Enlightenment philosophy became available to the general public, and was banned by the Catholic Church in France.
What is Diderot's Encyclopedia?
500
Jefferson believed these were the natural rights of man, and included them in the Declaration of Independence.
What are "life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness?"