Enlightenment & Scientific Revolution Quiz Review

Scientific Revolution: From the work of scientists such as Copernicus, Bacon, Galileo, and Newton came . . .

• new maps were made to help navigate the seas

• Renaissance people learned the sun orbits the Earth

• improvements were made in the field of medicine

• new scientific fields and principles developed

Scientific Revolution: The Heliocentric Theory says that the ______ is the center of the universe.

Match the following for the Scientific Revolution.

• Developed the telescope and sponsored by the Medici Family

• Isaac Newton

• Physicist who developed the laws of motion and gravity

• Copernicus

• Developed the Heliocentric Theory (planets revolve around the sun)

• Francis Bacon

• Created the scientific method

• Galileo

Match the following

• Government should work for the people. People are born with 3 rights: life, liberty, & property.

• Checks and Balances

• The system that makes sure no one branch of government has too much power.

• John Locke

• Focused on freedom of speech and religion

• Thomas Jefferson

• The American colonist used ideas of John Locke to include into the Declaration of Independence.

• Rousseau

• Developed the social contract theory

• Voltaire

Enlightenment: Which of the following is a philosophy of John Locke?

• One leader having absolute authority over the nation is the only way to ensure order

• What the majority wants is not always best for the country

• Government should protect three rights of people: life, liberty, and property.

• Citizens should not follow any form of political authority or have any common purpose.

Enlightenment: Philosophers in the Enlightenment believed ​ (a)   could improve society.

• applying reason
• relying on faith and belief
• borrowing ideas from Greeks and Romans
• studying the practice of successful leaders

Enlightenment: Two events, ​ (a)   and ​ (b)   were inspired by the Enlightenment.

• The American Revolution
• The French Revolution
• beginning of Exploration
• The Scientific Revolution