Chapter 8: The Enlightenment and Revolutions

Who wrote the Declaration of Independence?

Which nation had a greater number of colonists in North America?

Why did Joseph II's efforts at reforms largely fail?

Which state was especially difficult to rule due to many languages, relgions, and cultures being a part of it?

The first European to make regular observations using a telescope and discovered mountains on the moon.

What term means that states should have equal power to each other so no one dominates?

Which art style emphasized grace and charm?

The new constitution proposed a federal system in which the national and _________ governments shared power.

Which of the following was a reform that Frederick the Great made?

The joining of England to what other state led to the creation of the United Kingdom?

This person described the universe as a "world machine" that operated by natural laws.

Cut open human bodies, many of which were criminals, to learn more about human anatomy.

Which of the following is not a way that the ideas of the Enlightenment spread?

What was the effect of Catherine the Great favoring the nobility in Russia?

What happened to the last of six successors to Peter the Great?

This person criticized Christianity and championed the idea of deism, where God created the universe then peaced out.

Was critical of the belief that humans could become the masters of nature by using science.

Came up with a system for naming the elements and is regarded as the founder of modern chemistry.

Which of the following rights is not listed in the Declaration of Independence?

Believed in the separation of the mind and body and said that matter can be investigated by reason.

Which art style emphasized grandeur and power?

Which of the following seemed most willing to follow the ideas of the Enlightenment?

At what age did Mozart compose his first opera?

Most known for helping to develop the scientific method and the use of inductive reasoning.

This person was the first to offer a heliocentric model of the universe.

Where was the treaty to end the American Revolutionary War signed?

The Ptolemaic system of the universe placed what in the center?

What animated movie is the guy that played King George in the musical Hamilton in?

Which of the following is not a part of the scientific method?

A writer that edited the 28-volume Encyclopedia, an attempt to compile all knowledge and spread the Enlightenment.

What was the first direct tax on British colonists?

All of the following are roles of the government according to Adam Smith except what?

A major war breaks out over the succession to the throne of what state?

What was one issue with Britain's new ruler after the passing of the last Stuart?

All of the following were scientific breakthroughs during the Scientific Revolution except what?

Studied governments and concluded that three branches that had separate powers and checked each other was best.

Which of the following is not one of the natural rights that the philosophes believed in?

Which job does Thomas Jefferson not hold?

What was the name of the 18th century philosophical movement that was influenced by the Scientific Revolution?

Studied the properties of gases and said that a volume of gas varies with the pressure applied to it.

Renaissance humanists mastered what language which gave access to the works of Archimedes and Plato?

Which country joins in an alliance with France and Austria before the Seven Years' War?

Experimented with liquids under pressure which led to the development of the syringe and hydraulic press.

Which of the following is not one of the states discussed with regards to enlightened absolutism?

This person defines three laws of motion and also the universal law of gravitation.

Which nation is victorious in the French and Indian War?

Claimed that if the absolute power of monarchs was wrong, the power of men over women was wrong. Women have reason too!

How many amendments to the Constitution were proposed as it was trying to be ratified?

An astronomer that discovered a comet, but was rejected from Berlin Academy.

Who claimed that we are born with a "tabula rasa" or blank mind and that we are molded by our environment?

During the Middle Ages, educated Europeans based their understanding of the natural world on...

The founder of the modern social science of economics that believed the state should be laissez-faire with the economy.

Which nation provides the most support to the American colonists during the American Revolution?

Who served as the commander in chief of the Continental Army?

Said that people adopt gov. to preserve private property and discussed the idea of the social contract.

Which of the following had the 4th largest army at this time?

All of these are true about the philosophes except what?

Even though Maria Theresa was not open to reform, what is one thing she accomplished?

A German mathematician that first discussed the laws of planetary motion, one of which was that orbits are elliptical.

What was the name of the region that Prussia seized from Austria?