The American Revolution Flashcards
Who showed that our universe is heliocentric—the planets of the solar system revolve around the sun?
Galileo Galilei
Who developed the laws of gravitation and motion?
Isaac Newton
Who was often called the father of modern mathematics because he created analytic geometry and the Cartesian coordinate system?
René Descartes
Who first asserted that scientists should conduct repeated observations and practical experiments to answer specific questions?
Francis Bacon
Which was an accomplishment of Galileo Galilei?
discovering four moons orbiting Jupiter
How did people’s general way of thinking change as a result of the Scientific Revolution?
People questioned long-accepted views.
What was the Enlightenment?
an intellectual movement based on reason
Who wrote about the importance of basing government on the general will?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Which Enlightenment thinker explained in his Two Treatises of Government that all beings have the same natural rights of life, liberty, and property?
John Locke
Which was a belief of Voltaire?
Kings should be guided by reason.
Which did Montesquieu influence?
U.S. Constitution
Which was an idea or belief of the Enlightenment thinker Mary Wollstonecraft?
Women should have the same opportunities for education as men.
Why did the colonists object to paying new taxes on goods such as sugar, paper, and tea?
The colonists were being taxed without any representation in the British Parliament.
Thomas Jefferson based his argument for unalienable rights on the work of which person?
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Why was the Battle of Saratoga a major turning point during the American Revolution?
The battle convinced the French to help the colonies.
