Chapter 22 Review Game

Question 1

What was the name of the theory that stated the earth was the center of the Universe?

Accepted Answer

geocentric theory

Question 2

Some monarchs embraced the new ideas/reforms that reflected the Enlightenment. They became known as enlightened despots.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 3

What document says “We hold these truths to be self-evident,...“that all men are created equal"

Accepted Answer

Declaration of Independence

Question 4

King of Prussia who granted many religious freedoms/reduced censorship/improved education.

Accepted Answer

Frederick the Great

Question 5

Ruler of Russia allowed religious toleration/ abolishing torture but only managed to place limited reforms

Accepted Answer

Catherine the Great

Question 6

Music styles changed to reflect Enlightenment ideals. A new, lighter, & more elegant style of music emerged known as

Accepted Answer

classical

Question 7

This setup provided a built-in system of _____ , with each branch checking the actions of the other two.

Accepted Answer

checks and balances

Question 8

As scholars replaced old assumptions with new theories, they launched a change in European thought that historians call

Accepted Answer

scientific revolution

Question 9

Art of the 1600s & early 1700s had been dominated by the grand-ornate style called

Accepted Answer

baroque

Question 10

Enlightened thinkers believed truth could be discovered through reason or logical thinking

Accepted Answer

Reason

Question 11

The philosophes stressed that society and humankind could improve

Accepted Answer

Progress

Question 12

The Constitution set up a _____ in which power was divided between national and state governments.

Accepted Answer

federal system

Question 13

Locke believed people could learn from experience and they had the natural ability to govern their own affairs.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 14

Many of the Bill of Rights ideas had been advocated by Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 15

What philosopher said "I do not agree with a word you say but will defend to the death your right to say it."?

Accepted Answer

Voltaire

Question 16

This & subsequent trade laws prevented colonists from selling their most valuable products to any country except Britain

Accepted Answer

Navigation Act

Question 17

He made the first thermometer to use mercury in glass.

Accepted Answer

Gabriel Fahrenheit

Question 18

Radical royal of Austria who introduced legal reforms and freedom of the press. He also supported freedom of worship.

Accepted Answer

Joseph II

Question 19

English writer who wrote an essay where she argued that women, like men, needed education to become virtuous & useful?

Accepted Answer

Mary Wollstonecraft

Question 20

Salons and the encyclopedia helped spread Enlightenment ideas to educated people all over Europe.

Accepted Answer

True

Question 21

Name of the intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems?

Accepted Answer

Enlightenment

Question 22

The philosophes called for the liberties that the English people had won in their Glorious Revolution and Bill of Rights

Accepted Answer

Liberty

Question 23

The first microscope was invented by a Dutch maker of eyeglasses

Accepted Answer

Zacharias Janssen

Question 24

What was the name of the logical procedure for gathering and testing ideas?

Accepted Answer

scientific method

Question 25

He created a scale for the mercury thermometer in 1742. This scale showed freezing at 0°.

Accepted Answer

Anders Celsius

Question 26

What was the name of the astronomer who carefully recorded the movements of the planets for many years?

Accepted Answer

Tycho Brahe

Question 27

The philosophes believed that what was natural was also good and reasonable.

Accepted Answer

Nature

Question 28

He developed the first mercury barometer, a tool for measuring atmospheric pressure and predicting weather

Accepted Answer

Evangelista Torricelli

Question 29

He was considered the founder of modern chemistry

Accepted Answer

Robert Boyle

Question 30

Philosophes rejected the notion that people should find joy in the hereafter & urged people to seek well-being on earth.

Accepted Answer

Happiness

Question 31

Name of the approach where scientists use experiments to draw conclusions instead of reasoning from abstract theories?

Accepted Answer

empiricism

Question 32

What was the name of the scientist who announced that Jupiter had four moons and that the sun had dark spots?

Accepted Answer

Galileo Galilei

Question 33

What is the name of person who developed analytical geometry, which links algebra and geometry?

Accepted Answer

Descartes

Question 34

Argued that a person accused of a crime should receive a speedy trial, and that torture should never be used.

Accepted Answer

Beccaria

Question 35

People handover their rights to a strong ruler. In exchange, they gained law/order. This agreement is called

Accepted Answer

social contract

Question 36

Artists & architects worked in a simple and elegant style that borrowed ideas & themes from classical Greece and Rome.

Accepted Answer

neoclassical

Question 37

What was the name of the English writer who books addressed the lack of educational opportunities for women?

Accepted Answer

Mary Astell

Question 38

He used a microscope to observe bacteria swimming in tooth scrapings and examined red blood cells for the first time

Accepted Answer

Anton van Leeuwenhoek

Question 39

He introduced a vaccine to prevent smallpox.

Accepted Answer

Edward Jenner

Question 40

Believed the only good government was one that was freely formed by the people & guided by the “general will” of society

Accepted Answer

Rousseau

Question 41

To protest the tax on imported tea, a group of colonists dumped a large load of British tea into the Boston Harbor

Accepted Answer

Boston Tea Party

Question 42

Colonists had to pay a tax to have an official stamp put on wills, deeds, newspapers, and other printed material.

Accepted Answer

Stamp Act

Question 43

What was the name of the astronomer who created the heliocentric theory?

Accepted Answer

Copernicus

Chapter 22 Review Game

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Chapter 22 Review Game

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