WS2 Chapter 22

Under the threat of what did Galileo agree that copernicus’s ideas were false?

Torture

The Enlightenment was a new intellectual movement that stressed what?

Reason and thought

Locke believed that a government’s power comes from what?

Consent of the people

Mary Wollstonecraft urged women to enter the male-dominated fields of what?

Medicine and Politics

American colonists saw themselves less as what? and more of?

British and more of Virginians and Pennsylvanians

In September 1774, representatives from where? gathered in Philadelphia to form the 1st Continental Congress

Every colony except Georgia

The American’s motivation for fighting was stronger than the British since their army was what?

Defending their homeland

There was no __________ branches of government under the Articles of Confederation

Supporters of the Constitution were called what?

Federalists

In order to gain support for the ratification of the Constitution, the Federalists promised what?

To add a bill of rights

Nicolaus Copernicus

Created Heliocentric theory

Galileo Galilei

Built his own telescope, shattered Aristotle’s theory

Andreas Vesalius

Anatomy

Edward Jenner

Smallpox Vaccine

Thomas Hobbes

He said ruler needed absolute power to keep citizens in order

John Locke

Said people are born with 3 natural rights

Voltaire

Sent to prison for attacking clergy, the aristocracy, and the government in his writings

Baron de Montesquieu

Strong advocate for separation of powers in government

Jean Rousseau

Said “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains”

Bonesana Beccaria

Believed laws existed to preserve social order, not to avenge crimes

Mary Wollstonecraft

Argued that women needed education as well

List the 3 natural rights that John Locke said all people are born with

• Property

• Life

• Liberty

List the 3 opponents that Voltaire often targeted in his essays

• Aristocracy

• Government

• Clergy

List the 4 items used by colonists that were impacted by the Stamp Act of 1765

• Wills

• Deeds

• Newspapers

• Printed materials