Enlightenment And Revolution

Question 0

They posed theories about the natural world and developed procedures to test those ideas

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Scientific revolution

Question 1

Earth center of the world

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Geocentric theory

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Scientist eventually developed a new approach to investigation and discovery

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Scientific revolution

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Copernicus’s discovery that the earth revolves around the sun

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Heliocentric theory

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Supported Copernican theory, Italian scientist

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Galileo Galilei

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Gravity, English scientist

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Isaac Newton

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Or age of Reason

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Enlightenment

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Eager to promote the new ideas, many wealthy Parisian women began hosting social gatherings called

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Salons

Question 8

The book Hobbes wrote,

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Leviathan

Question 9

Hobbes called this exchange between society and government

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Social contract

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Another English philosopher, believed that people were naturally happy, tolerant, and reasonable

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John Locke

Question 11

Dividing power among branches, French thinker

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Baron de Montesquieu

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Philosopher or

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Philosophes

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Monarchs that developed a system of government in which they ruled according to enlightenment ideas

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Enlightened despots

Question 14

Witch required colonists to pay a tax for an official stamp on all newspapers, legal documents, and other public papers

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Stamp act

Question 15

Americans familiar with the enlightenment concepts

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John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, and Benjamin Franklin

Question 16

In September 1783 the British government formally recognized the independence of the United States by signing the

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Treaty of Paris

Question 17

The constitution created a ____________________ of government

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Federal system