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Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment SSWH13
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment SSWH13
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Mathematician and physicist; father of modern mechanics; universal law of gravitation.
John Locke
Robert Frost
James Madison
Isaac Newton
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How did Montesquieu's ideas influence the founders of the United States?
Chose to add a Bill of Rights to the US Constitution.
Committed to the idea of women's suffrage.
Created a system of separation of powers.
Originally wanted to create a constitutional monarchy.
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Criticized medieval scholars; considered the father of the scientific method.
Jesus
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
Georges Danton
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Believed people were born with the natural rights of life, liberty, and property.
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
John Locke
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Many of Montesquieu's ideas are found in the
Magna Carta
Constitution
Declaration of Independence
Articles of Confederation
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He believed in freedom of religion and freedom of speech..
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Hobbes
Rousseau
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Lived final years under house arrest because his theories went against church authorities.
Nicolaus Copernicus
Rene Descartes
Johannes Kepler
Galilei Galileo
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"To every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction." Who am I?
Isaac Newton
Robert Boyle
Copernicus
Galileo
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What changed occurred in Europe because of the Scientific Revolution?
The idea that individuals had rights and liberties.
Catholic teachings were questioned by new scientific ideas.
The power of the Catholic Church was reinstated.
The authority of monarchs in Western Europe was reduced.
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John Locke believed if the government failed to protect natural rights, citizens could
do nothing about it
boycott the government
elect new leaders
overthrow the government
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Intellectual movement that stressedreason the power of individuals to solve problems....
Age of Reason
Age of Discovery
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
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Who developed a thermometer with 0 as the freezing point?
Edward Jenner
Robert Boyle
Gabriel Fahrenheit
Anders Celsius
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Who developed a smallpox vaccine?
Edward Jenner
William Harvey
Robert Boyle
Andreas Vesalius
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Era in which new ideas in physics, astronomy, biology, human anatomy, & chemistry happened
Age of Reason
Age of Discovery
Scientific Revolution
Enlightenment
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Father of modern chemistry; known for the law that explains characteristics of gases.
Copernicus
Galileo
Francis Bacon
Robert Boyle
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Developed the Heliocentric theory but didn't publish findings until 1543-the year he died.
Pope Urban II
Galilei Galileo
Nicolaus Copernicus
Johannes Kepler
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Who dissected human bodies and publishedthe book of anatomy
On the Structure of the Human Body?
Andreas Vesalius
Galen
Edward Jenner
Robert Boyle
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During the Enlightenment, philosophes believed that
government should be based on religion.
the Greeks and Romans had the best forms of government.
science and reason could improve society and government.
people gave up their natural rights to rulers.
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Who improved the telescope and proved Copernicus' teachings were correct?
Isaac Newton
Johannes Kepler
Gallileo
Robert Boyle
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Theory that the sun was at the center of the universe......
Geothermal
Almacentric
Heliocentric
Geocentric
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Who developed the laws of planetary motion & proved planets had elliptical orbits?
Johannes Gutenberg
Nicolaus Copernicus
Gallileo
Johannes Kepler
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Which Enlightenment thinker had the most influence on the "Declaration of Independence?"
John Locke
Voltaire
Thomas Hobbes
Thomas Paine
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The Heliocentric Theory stated that...
the sun, not the earth was the center of the solar system.
the earth, not the sun was the center of the solar system.
for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction.
objects of different masses fall at the same velocity.
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Believed best government came from the general will of the people.
Mary Wollstonecraft
Jean Jacques Rousseau
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
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Wrote the Spirit of the Laws; introduced theory of three branches of government.
Voltaire
Locke
Montesquieu
Rousseau
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Developed social contract & believed in a strong government with an absolute monarch.
John Locke
Thomas Paine
Thomas Jefferson
Thomas Hobbes
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“I may not agree with a thing you say, but will defend to the death your right to say it” said
Montesquieu
Voltaire
Locke
Rousseau
