Studied by 4 people
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
Note
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