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Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution and Enlightenment
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What was the main idea that America took from John Locke
Legal rights for the poor
Civil rights are given by God, not the government
Separation of government powers
We need a strong king to keep us from fighting
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Who put together the first Encyclopedia?
Hobbes
Voltaire
Locke
Diderot
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Who created the Geocentric Theory?
Aristotle
Plato
Galileo
Copernicus
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This idea allowed scientists to test and measure everything, starting the Scientific Revolution
The Scientific Magazine
The Scientific Method
The Heliocentric Theory
The Geocentric Theory
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Before the Scientific Revolution, what were the 2 main sources of scientific knowledge?
The public school system
The Church and Ancient Greek scholars
The Church and Martin Luther
The internet
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What was the main idea that America took from William Blackstone?
The rich should pay higher taxes
Freedom of the Press
We should all pay equal taxes
Better to let 10 guilty free than jail an innocent person.
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Who helped the Heliocentric Theory by helping to fix the math in the orbits of planets?
Copernicus
Galileo
Ptolemy
Kepler
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What does the Heliocentric Theory say?
The Sun and the Earth are both stationary.
The Earth is the only object in the solar system.
The Sun revolves around the Earth.
The Earth revolves around the sun.
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What was the main idea that America took from Montesquieu?
Separation of government powers
Legal rights for the poor
We need a strong king to keep us from fighting
Civil Rights are given by God
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Who was sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life for supporting Heliocentrism?
Ptolemy
Copernicus
Kepler
Galileo
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What did Mary Wollstonecraft argue for?
Equal income for women
Equal prison times for women
Equal education for women
Equal punishments for women
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Who argued that government exists to protect people's natural rights?
Hobbes
Blackstone
Copernicus
Locke
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Which best describes Adam Smith's idea of Rational Self-Interest?
Everyone keeps what they earn, so they work harder.
Everyone should have the same amount of money.
High taxes allow for a successful government.
Do whatever feels right at the moment.
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What happens when government doesn't do what the people want? (Rousseau's Social Contract)
The Social Contract is broken!
All of the above!
Must have a new vote!
We must install a more powerful king!
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The President is the most powerful person in America. Which thinker gave America this idea?
Locke
Hobbes
Brahe
Voltaire
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Which time period led to start the Scientific Revolution?
The Northern Renaissance
The Enlightenment
The Age of Exploration
Ancient Rome
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Hobbes talks of a Social Contract in which people give up some rights in return for _______.
A bunch of lawyers
Safety, peace, and order
Extra freedoms
Cold hard cash
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Who was the first to argue for the Heliocentric Theory?
Galileo
Copernicus
Ptolemy
Kepler
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Who argued that people should be governed by consent?
Locke
Blackstone
Voltaire
Hobbes
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Thomas Hobbes says that societies need ______ to be successful.
King of Queens
Weak kings
Powerful kings
Democracy
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What are the 3 basic natural rights that John Locke said everybody has?
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of property
Life, Liberty, and Leisure
Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness
Life, Liberty, and the American way
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Who argued for legal rights of the poor, freedom of speech and freedom of the press?
Rousseau
Voltaire
Hobbes
Locke
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What does it mean to govern by consent?
Government is totally illegitimate
Government rules only with the agreement of the citizens
Government must be more powerful than the citizens
Government decides what is best
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What does the Geocentric Theory say?
The Earth is the only object in the solar system.
The Sun revolves around the Earth.
The Earth revolves around the Sun.
The Sun is the only object in the solar system.
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What is another name for the Enlightenment?
The Reformation
The Age of Reason
The Columbian Exchange
The Renaissance
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Which best describes the Encyclopedia?
The interweb
All knowledge of man in one set of books.
A huge dictionary of facts about nature.
A list of all of the important people in America.
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Which thinker did
NOT
argue for personal property rights?
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Adam Smith
William Blackstone
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Who gives people these rights that John Locke says we should have?
No one
Kings and Queens
God
Government
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Who argued that the purpose of government is to work for the common good, not just the rich?
Rosseau
Locke
Galileo
Hobbes
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If everyone specializes in one specific job area the whole society will grow more wealthy.
Adam Smith's Division of Labor
Adam Smith's Divide Wealth Equally
The Communist Manifesto
Adam Smith's Early bird gets the worm
