Ch. 21 Review Quiz

He said the best government is divided government (separate branches).

He claimed that a society agrees to be governed by its general will.

He argued that everyone is born with a blank slate, or tabula rasa.

Adam Smith's theory that the government should not interfere with the economy.

This is the name given to the first ten amendments to the American Constitution.

She added new lands to Russia, but did little to improve the lives of serfs there.

He was the first to view the universe with a telescope. at first, he disputed Church teachings.

What was America's first constitution?

The belief that the sun was the center of the universe.

This Austrian province was seized by Prussia to start the War of Austrian Succession.

This tax on printed materials was one that pushed American colonists to revolution.

He is the father of modern rationalism.  He said, "I think, therefore, I am".

A dainty, graceful art form that was very different from the baroque style.

He developed the universal law of gravity.

Rulers who tried to apply Enlightenment ideas while maintaining full power in their countries.