Chapter 8 World History Test - Mrs. Unger

What was issued at the Second Continental Congress?

Who wrote the Declaration of Indepence?

Salons were

What were enlightened despots . Name 3 & the countries they are from

Mathematican that proved Copernicus' theory about the motion of planets

The population of the British Colonies in N. America grew from __________in 1700 to ______________ in 1770?

The ideas that the earth and the other planets revolve around the sun.

What was the name of the first document that governed the 13 states after the American Revolution?

The assignment of executive, legislative & judicial powers to different groups in the government.

Enlightened Despots were ready to give up their power to follow through with Enlightenment ideas.

Discovered the law of pendulum; falling objects accelerate at fixed & predictable rates, and made his own telescope.

Whose Idea was the Declaration of Independence based on?

Which of the following did the US Constitution not establish?

What year & where did the 1st fighting between the British and colonists take place?

Name 3 authors who developed many features of the modern novel.

The 1st British tax on colonists in 1765 to pay for the French & Indian War

Great Britain tightened trade laws in 1760 to prepare colonies to become independent.

Brought together the ideas of Copernicus, Kepler, & Galileo; Universal Law of Gravity

Measures designed to prevent any one branch of government from gaining too much power and dominating the other branches.

Who led the Boston Tea Party?

The philosophes were.......

Human beings are reasonable beings. Supported self-gov't & argued the purpose of gov't. is to protect natural rights.

Believed people are selfish and wicked. A strong gov't is important to control human behavior.

Major change in European thought; mid-1500s, studied the natural world with observation & questioned accepted beliefs

The Stamp Act........

The agreement by which people define & limit their individual rights, thus creating an organized society

A statement of the reasons for the American colonies to break with Britain; approved by the Second Continental Congress

Great composers in classical music from Vienna, Austria who lived during the Enlightenment.

Mathematician that developed analytical geometry

A tariff is a tax

European movement; thinkers attempted to apply the principles of reason and scientific method to all aspects of society

The rights that all people are born with, according to Locke: life, liberty, and property.

The 1st ten amendments to the US Constitution; protects citizens' basic rights and freedoms

A system of government in which the power is divided between a central authority and a number of individual states.

The Greek astronomer who studied heliocentrism for 25 years. Published his findings the year he died, 1543.

What convinced many people in the 13 states that we needed a stronger central government?

General Cornwallis surrendered at..........

The Constitution of the United States ws issued July 4, 1776.

Believed separation of powers would keep individuals or individual groups from gaining too much power in gov't

Logical procedure; gathers info about the natural world and uses experimentation & observation to test hypotheses.

What was the 1st meeting in 1774 of every colony except Georgia?

One way the colonists protested the Stamp Act was by boycotting.