Scientific Revolution & Enlightenment

Enlightenment philosophers encouraged political revolutions with their support of...

• Socialism

• Imperialism

• the natural rights of man

• the divine (heavenly) right of monarchies

One belief held by John Locke during the age of the Enlightenment was…

• Monarchies should be upheld across Europe

• Citizens must enter into a strict social contract to provide law and order in society

• Governments exist to protect the natural rights of citizens

• Separation of powers was necessary to the success of the government

Enlightenment philosophers such as Beccaria believed in reforming the criminal justice system. Once idea of his was to abolish (get rid of) which of the following?

• the right to a fair trial

• the use of cruel and unusual punishment (torture)

• the right to an attorney

• the system of slavery

One of the earliest to ask for equal rights for women, what Enlightenment writer questioned the men’s ideas that women should only be educated enough to be good wives and mothers?

• Elizabeth Cady Stanton
• Mary Wollstonecraft
• Mary Shelley
• Catherine the Great

Which philosopher believed that a government with separation of powers was the best type of government? 

• John Locke 
• Voltaire
• Montesquieu
• Rousseau

Francis Bacon developed a series of steps to help scientists test ideas. What was this procedure called?

• the Procedure

• the Bacon Method

• the Scientific Method

• the Truth Finder

A German mathematician who was known for his laws of planetary motion in elliptical orbits around the sun.

• Leviticus

• Kepler

• Columbus

• Newton

Who was the English scientist who discovered the laws of gravitation?

• Galileo

• Newton

• Kepler

• Copernicus

He was a polish mathematician and astronomer who was first to determine that the sun was the center of the solar system.

• Galilieo

• Humes

• Copernicus

• Descartes

Why would Montesquieu want to separate the powers of the Executive, Legislative, and Judicial branches?

• So that the government could ruin our economy
• So that all branches could have unlimited power over the people
• So no one branch has more power over the other
• All of the above