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Chavez WH 22 Vocab
CH 22
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Abuses | improper uses, misuses |
| Astronomy | Study of the universe beyond the earth |
| Boycott | Organized refusal to buy a certain good or participate in a certain action |
| Hypothesis | attempt to answer a question that needs to be proven or disproven |
| Intellectual | Related to thinking or to the mind |
| Law of gravity | Idea linking motion in the heavens with motion on the Earth and based on the principle that every object attracts every other object |
| reformed | Changed for the better |
| Repeal | Take back a law |
| Serfdom | State or condition of using workers as slaves |
| Vaccination | Introduction of weakened or killed viruses or bacteria into the body to protect against a specific disease |
| Violated | Went against |
| Scientific Revolution | New way of thinking about the natural world based on careful observation and a willingness to question |
| Heliocentric theory | Theory that the sun is at the center of the universe |
| Geocentric Theory | View which held that the earth was the center of the universe |
| Galileo Galilei | Scientist who was forced by the Catholic Church to take back scientists ideas that disagreed with the church's view |
| Scientific Method | Logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas |
| Isaac Newton | Scientist who discovered laws of motion and gravity |
| Enlightenment | Age of reason |
| Social contract | According to Thomas Hobbes, an agreement people make with government |
| John Locke | Philosopher who wrote about government, Life Liberty and Property |
| Philosophes | social critics in France |
| Voltaire | writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech |
| Montesquieu | French writer concerned with government and political liberty, checks and balances |
| Rousseau | Enlightenment thinker who championed freedom |
| Mary Wollstonecraft | Author who wrote women's rights |
| Salon | Social gathering for discussing ideas or enjoying art |
| Baroque | Grand, ornate style |
| Neoclassical | Sample style that borrowed ideas from classical Greece and Rome |
| Enlightened despot | Ruler who supported Enlightenment ideas but did not give up power |
| Catherine the great | Russian ruler who took steps to reform and modernize Russia |
| Declaration of Independence | Document declaring America's independence from Britain |
| Thomas Jefferson | Author of the Declaration of Independence |
| Checks and Balances | System in which each branch of government checks, or limits, the power of the other two branches |
| Federal system | System of government in which power is divided between the national and state governments |
| Bill of Rights | First ten amendments to the U.S. Constitution's; protections of basic rights for individuals |
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