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

• Copernicus

• He expanded Inventors work

• Telescope

• Invention

• Galileo

• The Sun

• Enlightenment

• Discoverer of Theory

• Focus of theory

• Time Period

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

• No rights for citizens

• Citizen serves government

• Absolute Power of Monarch

• Government protects citizens rights

• Balance Liberty and Stability

• Magna Carta led to more laws

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

• was the first law to try to limit a kings power
• French
• Required oaths of loyalty to the Anglican Church

• Latin

Match the person to the idea they championed below.

• Harvey

• Secularism

• Voltaire

• Heliocentric theory

• Copernicus

• Human bloodstream

• Montesquieu

• Gender equality

• Wollstonecraft

• Separation of powers

Why did the Catholic Church prosecute scientific thinkers?

• The new theories/facts 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.

Galileo was declared a heretic, and convicted for his belief in the Heliocentric Theory

• True

• False