Quick History Review: Enlightenment and Science

Scientific Revolution

The change in European though that laid the foundations for modern science

Galileo

Expanded upon the heliocentric idea of the universe

Newton

Deism, thought that scientific methods could be used on social sciences

Philosophes

French Enlightenment thinkers who applied science to improve society

Enlightenment impact on American Revolution

Many philosophes' ideas were used in the constitution or plagiarized by Jefferson.

Social Contract

Where people agree to give up some freedoms for more security

English Civil War

Fought between the Roundheads and Royalists, Roundheads won and executed King Charles I

Causes: Taxation and King Charle's increasingly absolutist rule