Enlightenment and Revolution - Chapter 22

Question 1

French writer concerned with government and political liberty

Answer 1

Montesquieu

Question 2

Grand, ornate style

Answer 2

baroque

Question 3

Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas

Answer 3

scientific method

Question 4

Author of the Declaration of Independence

Answer 4

Thomas Jefferson

Question 5

New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question

Answer 5

Scientific Revolution

Question 6

Author who wrote about women’s rights

Answer 6

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 7

View which held that the earth was the center of the universe

Answer 7

geocentric theory

Question 8

Social gathering for discussing ideas or enjoying art

Answer 8

Salon

Question 9

Writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom, of religious belief, and freedom of speech

Answer 9

Voltaire

Question 10

First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution; protections of basic rights for individuals

Answer 10

Bill of rights

Question 11

Social critics of France

Answer 11

Philosophes

Question 12

Ruler who supported enlightenment ideas but did not give a power

Answer 12

Enlightened despot

Question 13

Philosopher who wrote about government

Answer 13

John Locke

Question 14

According to Thomas Hobbes, an Agreement people make with Goverment

Answer 14

Social Contract

Question 15

System in which each branch of government checks, or limits, the power of the other two branches

Answer 15

checks and balances

Question 16

Document declaring American independence from Britain

Answer 16

Declaration of Independence

Question 17

Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe

Answer 17

heliocentric theory

Question 18

Simple style that borrowed ideas from classical Greece and Rome

Answer 18

neoclassical

Question 19

Age of Reason

Answer 19

Enlightenment

Question 20

System of government in which power is divided between the national and state governments

Answer 20

Federal system

Question 21

Scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientific ideas that disagreed with the church’s view

Answer 21

Galileo Galilei

Question 22

Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity

Answer 22

Isaac Newton

Question 23

Enlightenment thinker who championed freedom

Answer 23

Rousseau

Question 24

Russian ruler who took steps to reform and modernize Russia

Answer 24

Catherine the Great