Scientific Revolution
This theory placed Earth at the center of the universe.
What is the geocentric theory?
This intellectual movement applied reason to questions about government and society.
What is the Enlightenment?
These social gatherings brought people together to discuss Enlightenment ideas.
What are salons?
This British law placed a tax on printed materials and contributed to colonial protests.
What is the Stamp Act?
This theory placed the Sun at the center, with Earth and other planets moving around it.
What is the heliocentric theory?
This thinker argued that people possess natural rights and that government should protect them.
Who is John Locke?
Denis Diderot helped create this massive collection of knowledge and Enlightenment ideas.
What is the Encyclopedia?
This document, primarily written by Thomas Jefferson, declared that the colonies were independent from Britain.
What is the Declaration of Independence?
This scientist used observations of the heavens to provide evidence supporting heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo Galilei?
This thinker argued that government power should be divided to prevent any one person or group from becoming too powerful.
Who is Montesquieu?
Diderot’s Encyclopedia was banned because it did this to traditional political and religious authority.
What is challenged or criticized it?
Jefferson's arguments about natural rights and government by consent were strongly influenced by this Enlightenment thinker.
Who is John Locke?
This process uses observation, experimentation, and evidence to test ideas about the natural world.
What is the scientific method?
This thinker challenged traditional ideas about women by arguing that women should receive an education.
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
Despite attempts to ban it, Diderot’s Encyclopedia helped spread Enlightenment ideas by making knowledge more widely available to people in this region.
What is Europe?
The Constitution divides power among the legislative, executive, and judicial branches, reflecting this Enlightenment thinker's ideas.
Who is Montesquieu?
This scientist argued that the same force that causes objects to fall to Earth also keeps the planets in orbit.
Who is Isaac Newton?
According to this Enlightenment idea, people give government authority in exchange for government fulfilling responsibilities to society.
What is the social contract?
This type of ruler adopted some Enlightenment reforms while continuing to hold absolute political power.
What is an enlightened despot?
In this system established by the Constitution, political power is shared between the national and state governments.
What is a federal system?