The Scientific Revolution
This was the theory that the Earth was the center of the universe.
What is the Geocentric Theory?
This Italian scientist built the first telescope and also gets a shout-out in Bohemian Rhapsody.
Who is Galileo?
This enlightenment thinker was instrumental in the separation of church and state and also wrote "Candide."
Who is Voltaire?
This Enlightenment Thinker is known for his idea of separation of powers. We think of this as "checks and balances."
Who is Montesquieu?
This was the unofficial policy of the British to not enforce laws on the colonists.
What is salutary neglect?
This process for testing new ideas involved identifying a problem, forming a hypothesis, experimenting to test the hypothesis, recording the results, forming a conclusion, and being able to repeat the process with the same result.
This scientist wrote the Principia where he first developed his gravitational theory.
Who is Isaac Newton?
This enlightenment thinker wrote "The Social Contract" insightfully nothing that "Man is born free but everywhere is in chains."
Who is Jean-Jacques Rousseau?
This French Enlightenment Thinker wrote The Encyclopedia.
Who is Diderot?
These were taxes imposed by the British on the colonists to recoup money spent on the French and Indian War.
What are the Sugar and Stamp Acts?
This philosopher said, "Cogito, Ergo, Sum." Or if you don't speak Latin, "I think; therefore, I am."
Who is Rene Descartes?
This Danish astronomer wrote Stella Nova, developed a system to explain planetary movement, and should have excused himself to use the restroom.
Who is Tyco Brahe?
This Founding Father and enlightenment thinker would later become the 3rd President of the United States.
Who is Thomas Jefferson?
This female Enlightenment Thinker pushed for equal rights for women and wrote "A Vindication of the Rights of Women."
Who is Mary Wollstonecraft?
This "massacre" was used as propaganda against the British. The first person killed was Crispus Attucks.
What is the Boston Massacre?
This Church had been the primary source of knowledge.
What is the Catholic Church?
This assistant to Tyco Brahe discovered that planets more in an elliptical pattern rather than a circle.
Who is Johannes Kepler?
This Enlightenment Thinker wrote "The Leviathan" and thought that people were naturally selfish and greedy.
Who is Thomas Hobbes?
This Enlightenment Thinker wrote "On Crime and Punishment" which advocated against cruel and unusual punishment.
Who is Cesare Becarria?
Not your average gathering, this event involved throwing a favorite beverage into Boston Harbor in protest of taxation without representation.
What is the Boston Tea Party?
This Polish scientist was the first to create a complete model of the Solar System.
Who is Nicolaus Copernicus?
This is Nicolaus Copernicus' famous book published after this death.
What is On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres?
This Enlightenment Thinker thought the government should protect one's natural rights such as life, liberty, and property.
Who is John Locke?
This believer in laissez-faire economics wrote "The Wealth of Nations," strongly supporting capitalism.
Who is Adam Smith?
The laws were passed in response to the Boston Tea Party in an effort to punish the colonists.
What were the Intolerable Acts?