Help
Options
Didn't know it?
click below
click below
Knew it?
click below
click below
Don't Know
Remaining cards (0)
Know
retry
shuffle
restart
0:00
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Enlightenment
Enlightenment Chapter 5
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Theory that the earth was the center of the universe | Geocentric Theory |
| Greek philosopher who proposed the geocentric theory | Ptolemy |
| Believed the only way to gain scientific knowledge was through experimentation | Francis Bacon |
| Believed people were selfish and greedy Believed an absolute monarch was the best form of government Believed people should from a social contract with their government | Thomas Hobbes |
| Built the first telescope for astronomy Stood trial before the Inquisition for his support of the Copernican theory (heliocentric theory) | Galileo Galilei |
| First to dissect human bodies Hired artists to produce accurate drawings of the human body | Andreas Versalius |
| Believed that people were born good but society corrupted them Believed the government should work for the common good | Jean-Jaques Rossaeu |
| Complied the encyclopedia | Denis Diderot |
| Explained the laws of universal gravitation Created calculus | Isaac Newton |
| Believed that everything should be doubted until it could be proven by reason. | Rene Descartes |
| Created a complete model of the solar system Discovered that planets move in ellipses | Johannes Kepler |
| Wrote about the injustices of French monarchy, nobility and the Church in satirical form. Exiled to England for two years | Voltaire |
| Demanded equal rights for women Believed women and men were created equal | Mary Wollesonecraft |
| Believed that people were naturally happy, tolerant, and reasonable. Believed everyone had natural rights to life, liberty and property. Believed the purpose of government was to protect people's natural rights | John Locke |
| Believed the sun was the center of the universe Created the heliocentric theory | Nicholas Coppernicus |
| Described the circulatory system and the human heart | William Harvey |
| Promoted the ideas of Separation of Powers Believed that the government should be divided into three branches | Montesquieu |
| Believed in lassez faire economics | Adam Smith |
| First chemist to define an element | Robert Boyle |
| Invented the microscope to view bacteria and microorganisms | Leeunhoek |
| Invented first periodic table of elements | Lavoisier |
| Thought the punishment should fit the crimes | Beccaria |
| Wrote Leviathan | Hobbes |
| People who applied reason to all aspects of life | Philosophes |
| Life, liberty, and property | Unalienable/Natural Rights |
| Invented the mercury thermometer | Fahrenheit |
| Monarchs who developed a system of government in which they ruled according to Enlightened ideas | Enlightened despots |
| Tax Parliment passed in 1765 that require colonists to pay a tax on an official stamp on newspapers, legal documents and other public papers | Stamp Act |
| Tax in 1767, taxed glass, paper, paints and tea | Townshend Acts |
| 1770 massacre in which five men were killed | Boston Massacre |
| Sons of Liberty throwing tea into the Boston Harbor | Boston Tea Party |
| Regulations as a punishment for the Boston tea party, limited the freedoms of colonists | Intolerable Acts |
| Cities at which the American Revolution began | Lexington and Concord |
| Pamphlet that argued colonists had matured to the point that they no longer needed British rule, written by Thomas Paine | Common Sense |
| Men on committee to write the Declaration of Independence (three men) | John Adams, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin |
| Commander of the army, appointed by the Second Continental Congress | George Washington |
| First document of the new U.S.A, made to avoid abuse of powers | Articles of Confederation |
| Replaced Articles of Confederation, created federal system of government | U.S. Constitution |
| treaty that ended the American Revolution | Treaty of Paris |
| Addition to Constitution that stated the rights of citizens | Bill of Rights |
| Alliance of Americans during the war of independence | France |
| a method of inquiry that promotes observing, measuring, explaining, and verifying as a way to gain scientific knowledge | Scientific Method |
| a transformation in European thought in the 1500s and 1600s that called for scientific observation, experimentation and the questioning of traditional opinions | Scientific Revolution |
| gatherings in which intellectual and political ideas were exchanged during the Enlightenment | Salon |
| First step of scientific method | identify the problem |
| second step of scientific method | form a hypothesis |
| third step of scientific method | experiment |
| fourth step of scientific method | record results |
| fifth step of scientific method | conclusion |
| Discovered and named supernovas, from Denmark | Tycho Brahe |
Created by:
AmyPond
Popular World History sets