Age of Reason Common Assessment

“We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness.”

The ideas expressed by Jefferson are based primarily on the writings of…

• Voltaire

• John Locke

• Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

One way the Scientific Revolution and the Enlightenment were similar is that they…

• Used reason to help understand the world around them

• Strengthened religious institutions

• Led to the Protestant Reformation

• Rejected scientific observation

The Scientific Method…

• Eliminated the need to repeat experiments

• Created a system to test hypotheses

• Provided a rational way to end absolutism

• Led to the Age of Exploration

Match the following key terminology involved with the Heliocentric Theory

• Enlightenment

• Time Period

• Focus of theory

• The Sun

• Copernicus

• Discoverer

• Telescope

• Invention

• Galileo

• Expanded Inventors work

Which of the following statements best resembles the Enlightenment?

• A. The monarch’s role is to prevent rebellion

• B. Government’s role is to protect individuals’ rights

• C. Citizens’ role is to destroy monarchies

• D. A monarch’s role is to gain more power through whatever means necessary

Organize the beliefs, philosophies, and practices based upon before and after enlightenment

Groups:

(a) Before Enlightenment

,

(b) After Enlightenment

• Citizen serves government

• Absolute Power of Monarch

• No rights for citizens

• Balance Liberty and Stability

• Magna Carta led to more laws

• Government protects citizens rights

Decreasing the power of nobles and increasing the size of armies and navies were two ways monarchs (a)  

• Shared power

• Influenced the arts

• centralized power
• Embraced mercantilism

The Magna Carta is ​ (a)   for "Greater Charter" and it (b)  

• was the first law to limit a kings power
• Created a legislative body in France
• Declared the United States independent

• Required oaths of loyalty to the Anglican Church

• Latin

Match the person to the idea they championed below.

• Voltaire

• Separation of powers

• Wollstonecraft

• Heliocentric theory

• Harvey

• Gender equality

• Montesquieu

• Human bloodstream

• Copernicus

• Secularism

Why did the Catholic Church prosecute scientific thinkers?

• The new findings undermined the legitimacy of the Church.

• They believed the Scientific Method was poorly designed.

• They believed the scientists were primarily motivated by money.

• They knew for a fact that Earth was the center of universe because they were secretly also astronauts.