The Enlightenment and Revolutions

__________ was the commander in chief of the Continental Army.

According to Rousseau, general will represents what is best for the

rich Austrian province invaded by Prussia

Great Britain passed the Stamp Act in order to collect __________ from the colonies.

The French scientist Blaise Pascal experimented with how _____ behaved under pressure.

ruler who tried to apply Enlightenment ideas while maintaining his or her full royal powers

The U.S. Constitution outlined a federal system with these three branches of government:

Francis Bacon believed that scientists should

Because of the Stamp Act, what had to carry a stamp?

tried to improve the life of the serfs

The colonies feared a strong __________.

Frederick II of Prussia did not improve life for

Why did many European intellectuals admire the U.S. Constitution and Bill of Rights?

What is one new alliance that formed as war broke out around the globe?

Enlightenment thinkers used the _____ to make progress towards a better society.

Why did France, Spain, and the Dutch Republic want to help the colonies against Britain?

Unlike baroque style, rococo art depicted

Deism was a religious philosophy based on reason and _____ law.

How did the end of the Seven Years’ War affect the future United States of America?

By approving the Declaration of Independence, people had officially declared their right to

_____ was a mathematician who showed that the orbits of the planets were elliptical.

Laissez-faire is an economic doctrine that says the _____ should leave the economy alone.

Which of the following made it possible for scientists to practice direct observation?

The __________ created a weak central government.

Diderot’s Encyclopedia was used to

How did the end of the War of the Austrian Succession set the stage for the Seven Years’ War?

Mary Wollstonecraft’s ideas about the rights of women were based on

Education spread widely during the enlightenment because

What finally happened to Silesia as a result of the Seven Years’ War?

Many intellectuals of the 15 and 1600s did not take Margaret Cavendish’s work seriously because

An Englishman, _____, is considered the greatest genius of the Scientific Revolution.

The federal system is a form of government in which power is

Copernicus argued that the planets revolved around the _____.

Why did Descartes decide to set aside everything that he had learned and begin again?

Newton’s universal law of gravitation explained all the ___ in the universe.

In the midst of his newfound fame, Galileo found himself under suspicion by the _____

strengthened Russia but made life worse for the serfs in Austria

Separation of _____ caused the parts of the government to control and limit each other.

Rousseau argued that society should be governed by the _____.

freedom of religion, speech, the press, and the right to own property