Quick History Review: Enlightenment and Science

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Scientific Revolution
The change in European though that laid the foundations for modern science
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Galileo
Expanded upon the heliocentric idea of the universe
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Newton
Deism, thought that scientific methods could be used on social sciences
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Philosophes
French Enlightenment thinkers who applied science to improve society
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Enlightenment impact on American Revolution
Many philosophes' ideas were used in the constitution or plagiarized by Jefferson.
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Social Contract
Where people agree to give up some freedoms for more security
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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