Scientific Revolution
In the 16th century the Catholic Church taught that this was the center of the universe.
What is the Earth?
This French word was applied to most Enlightenment thinkers.
What is philosophe?
The raising of these led colonists to begin to revolt.
What are taxes?
The ruler of France at the start of the Revolution.
Who is Louis XVI?
This colony was a large economic supplier of Europe's sugar and coffee.
What is Haiti?
This scientist published the Principia which contained the Universal Law of Gravity.
Who is Isaac Newton?
Wollstonecraft argued for this Enlightenment idea among the sexes.
What is equality?
This international conflict caused the colonists to seek British aid and resulted in massive debt.
What is The Seven Years War? (The French and Indian War)
This group made up 97% of the population but only received one vote in the government.
What is the Third Estate?
Slaves revolts led to France making this deal with United states for land in North America?
What is the Louisiana Purchase?
Francis Bacon developed this to test hypotheses.
What is the Scientific Method?
This Enlightenment thinker believed that God set the laws of the universe in motion, like a clockmaker, but did not interfere with the world.
Who is Voltaire?
This constitutional idea of government was inspired by Montesquieu's Spirit of Laws.
What is the separation of powers?
This document, written by the National Assembly, removed unjust taxes and granted men the right to vote for intendents.
What is the Declaration of the Rights of Men?
This group made up a majority of Haiti's population.
Who are slaves?
This scientist was accused of heresy for supporting heliocentrism.
Who is Galileo?
Rousseau argued for this because he believed that the government received its power from the people.
What is the Social Contract?
These can be found in the Bill of Rights and are believed to be had by every person.
What are natural rights?
A leader of the Third Estate, the Committee of Public Safety, and a large supporter of the Reign of Terror who was executed for accusing other leaders of conspiracy.
Who is Maximilien Robespierre?
This leader clarified that the rights granted in the French Revolution did not apply to the colonies.
Who is Napoleon?
This type of reasoning, which involves using small observations to come to a larger conclusion, was the backbone of the Scientific Revolution.
What is inductive reasoning?
This Enlightenment product helped to organize and spread the new ideas being made.
What is the Encyclopedia?
A kind of government in which the state and federal government share power.
What is the Federal System?
A young military man who helped stabilize France and was exiled twice for trying to conquer all of Europe.
Who is Napoleon Bonaparte?
This Haitian group believed that they were like the Third Estate in France, because they believed they were the oppressed ones.
Who are the poor Whites?