Enlightenment And Revolution Flashcards
They posed theories about the natural world and developed procedures to test those ideas
Scientific revolution
Earth center of the world
Geocentric theory
Scientist eventually developed a new approach to investigation and discovery
Scientific revolution
Copernicus’s discovery that the earth revolves around the sun
Heliocentric theory
Supported Copernican theory, Italian scientist
Galileo Galilei
Gravity, English scientist
Isaac Newton
Or age of Reason
Enlightenment
Eager to promote the new ideas, many wealthy Parisian women began hosting social gatherings called
Salons
The book Hobbes wrote,
Leviathan
Hobbes called this exchange between society and government
Social contract
Another English philosopher, believed that people were naturally happy, tolerant, and reasonable
John Locke
Dividing power among branches, French thinker
Baron de Montesquieu
Philosopher or
Philosophes
Monarchs that developed a system of government in which they ruled according to enlightenment ideas
Enlightened despots
Witch required colonists to pay a tax for an official stamp on all newspapers, legal documents, and other public papers
Stamp act
Americans familiar with the enlightenment concepts
John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin
In September 1783 the British government formally recognized the independence of the United States by signing the
Treaty of Paris
The constitution created a ____________________ of government
Federal system
