Enlightenment and American Revolution Quiz

Why did the Catholic Church attack Galileo?

• Most astronomers already agreed that the planets revolved around the sun.

• Motion in the universe had not yet been explained.

• The system Galileo defended went against the Christian view of the universe.

• Galileo refused to share his new information with the Church.

What was the third branch of government beside Judicial and Executive

• House of Representatives

• Senate

• Legislative

• none of these

This astronomer stated that the orbits of planets around the sun were elliptical, the planets do not orbit at a constant speed, and that an orbit is related to its distance from the sun.

• Copernicus

• Galileo

• Kepler

• Newton

Believed man had 3 natural rights: life, liberty, and property. Emphasized a government that had a limited amount of power.

• John Locke

• Thomas Jefferson

• Montesquieu

• Jean-Jacques Rousseau

Isaac Newton’s book Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica introduced the

• theories of atomic structure

• explanations of electrical charges

• premises of chemical reactions.

• universal laws of motion.

Who wrote the influential work 'Two Treatises of Government'?

• John Locke

• Thomas Hobbes

• Voltaire

• Montesquieu

Cataloged the new Enlightenment worldview in his work, the encyclopedia?

• Rousseau

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

• John Locke

The new scientific method of the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries relied on

• "natural philosophers."

• scientific knowledge that already existed.

• direct observation and experiment.

  
  

• Greek thinker Aristotle.

Which of the following battles ultimately led to peace negotiations?

• Yorktown

• Concord

• Lexington

• Boston

Who argued that distributing powers to separate branches of government would avoid tyranny and promote quality?

• Montesquieu

• Diderot

• Voltaire

• Locke