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Renaissance

Time period that is context for Scientific Revolution

involved A rejection of the traditional authority of thR Catholic church

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Scientific Revolution

Revolution that led to questions about society, the economy, and politics

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Scientific method

changed research by directly observing natural phenomenon and testing hypotheses through experiments

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Geocentric Model

Model accepted by church (had earth and center of universe)

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Heliocentric model

Made by Copernicus

Countered geocentric model

Had sun at center of solar system

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Physics

Galileo tested the movement of planetary

bodies using the telescope -

this led to ______

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Principia Mathematica

Book that connect the speed of falling objects to the movement of planet

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Gravity

Principia mathematica led to this theory

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The enlightenment

was a time of optimism where European philosophers believed government should reflect reason

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Natural Law

It is the view that there is a higher law to which specific written laws of a government must be compared

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Two treatises on government

English philosopher who wrote “life, liberty, and property” were natural rights in this book: ____

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Life liberty, and property

three example of. Natural rights

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Spirit of laws

In this book, Montesquieu favored the separation of government into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial

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The social contract

In this book: ______ , rousseau proposed a system where government is driven by the collective will of people

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Collective will

What should drive a government, according to Rousseau

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Declaration of independence

The philosophies of John Locke had a particular impact, whose logic formed the intellectual basis for going to war with Britain in 1775 and the writing of ________

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A vindication of the rights of women

This book written by Mary Wollstonecraft insisted that women, like men, possessed reason and were therefore entitled to rights.

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Seneca falls convention

1848, social turning point where women demanded the right to vote

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Declaration of sentiments

This document demanded the right to vote for women, and was modeled after American Declaration of Independence

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Francis Bacon

his Scientific Method changed research by directly observing natural phenomenon and testing hypotheses through experiments

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Copernicus

made the heliocentric model

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Galileo

he tested the movement of planetary bodies using the telescope

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Sir Isaac Newton

wrote a book called  Principia Mathematica

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John Locke

believed people gave up total freedom for the protection of a ruler

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Montesquieu

favored the separation of government into three branches: executive, legislative, and judicial

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Voltaire

admired the English system of government

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Jean-Jacques Rousseau

was one of the most radical Enlightenment thinkers

In his book, The Social Contract, he proposed a system where

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Enlightenment Thinkers

Living just before or even during the American Revolution, these people had a profound impact on the founding ideas of the United States

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Mary Wollstonecraft

English author that is considered the founder of modern feminism.

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Susan B. Anthony

Major figure in the American movement were