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Chapter 19 Vocab .<3
Key Terms & People
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| scientific theory that has the earth as the center of the universe with the suns and stars revolving around it ? | Geocentric Theory |
| a transformation in European thought in the 1500s and 1600s that called the scientific observation,experimentation,and the questioning of traditional opinions ? | Scientific Revolution |
| a method of inquiry that promotes observing,measuring,explaining,and verifying as a way to gain scientific knowledge ? | Scientific Method |
| he was one of the most important scholars who helped develop the scientific method . | Rene' Descartes |
| In the Early 1500s he was an Polish astronomer who recognized that the geocentric theory did not explain the movements of the sun, moon and planets accurately ? | Nicolaus Copernicus |
| a scientific theory that has the sun as the center of the universe with the earth rotating around the sun ? | Heliocentric Theory |
| was an Italian scientist . | Galileo Galilei |
| he was an English scientist who changed the world of science by bringing together astronomy,physics,and mathematics. | Issac Newton |
| a time of optimism and possibility from the late 1600s to the late 1700s;also called the Age of Reason ? | Enlightenment |
| gathering in which intellectual and political ideas were exchanged during the enlightenment ? | Salons |
| an agreement between a people and their government, stating that people would give up some of their freedom and in return,their government would provide them with peace,security, and order ? | Social Contract |
| an English Philosopher, who believed that people were naturally happy,tolerant,and reasonable ? | John Locke |
| an French Philosopher, who believed that people were basically born good ? | Jean-Jacques Rousseau |
| another French thinker, who argued that the best form of government included a separation of powers ? | Baron De Montesquieu |
| philosophers of the enlightenment ? | Philosophes |
| one of the most outspoken French philosophers, or philosophes, was Francois Marie Arouet, who had wrote under this name ? | Voltaire |
| the absolute monarchs in 18th century Europe who ruled according to the principles of the Enlightenment ? | Enlightened Despots |
| a law passed by the British Parliament that raised tax money by requiring the American colonists to pay for an official stamp whenever they bought paper items ? | Stamp Act |
| was an member of the committee, and was an well educated leader. He also wrote a draft of the Declaration | Thomas Jefferson |
| was also an member of the committee, and was an well educated learner ? | Benjamin Franklin |
| the second Continental congress had assigned him as the commanding general army in June 1775 ? | George Washington |
| the agreement that officially ended the American Revolution and established British recognition of the independence of the United States ? | Treaty of Paris |
| he had played a leading role in negotiating the main points ? | James Madison |
| a system of government in which power is divided between a central, or a federal, government and individual states ? | Federal system |
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