Enlightenment and Revolution - Chapter 22 Flashcards
Analyze events that led Enlightenment scientists and thinkers to question old ideas and to revolutionize the arts, religion, government, and society.
French writer concerned with government and political liberty
Montesquieu
Grand, ornate style
baroque
Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas
scientific method
Author of the Declaration of Independence
Thomas Jefferson
New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question
Scientific Revolution
Author who wrote about women’s rights
Mary Wollstonecraft
View which held that the earth was the center of the universe
geocentric theory
Social gathering for discussing ideas or enjoying art
Salon
Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom, of religious belief, and freedom of speech
Voltaire
First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution; protections of basic rights for individuals
Bill of rights
Social critics of France
Philosophes
Ruler who supported enlightenment ideas but did not give a power
Enlightened despot
Philosopher who wrote about government
John Locke
According to Thomas Hobbes, an Agreement people make with Goverment
Social Contract
System in which each branch of government checks, or limits, the power of the other two branches
checks and balances
Document declaring American independence from Britain
Declaration of Independence
Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe
heliocentric theory
Simple style that borrowed ideas from classical Greece and Rome
neoclassical
Age of Reason
Enlightenment
System of government in which power is divided between the national and state governments
Federal system
Scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientific ideas that disagreed with the church’s view
Galileo Galilei
Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity
Isaac Newton
Enlightenment thinker who championed freedom
Rousseau
Russian ruler who took steps to reform and modernize Russia
Catherine the Great
