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Chapter 19 Study Guide

 

Section One

1.    What is the “geocentric theory”? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

2.    According to this book, there are five steps in the scientific method. List them.

a.    ______________________________________________________________

b.    ______________________________________________________________

c.    ______________________________________________________________

d.    ______________________________________________________________

e.    ______________________________________________________________

3.    Who was Nicolaus Copernicus, and what theory did he develop? _______________ ___________________________________________________________________

4.    What did Tycho Brahe discover? ________________________________________

5.    What important fact about the planets did Johannes Kepler discover? ___________ __________________________________________________________________

6.    What scientific instrument did Galileo invent? ______________________________

7.    List at least three things that Galileo discovered by using his invention. __________ ___________________________________________________________________

8.    Isaac Newton developed what new form of mathematics? _____________________

9.    Andreas Vesalius was famous for what? __________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

10. What part of the human body was Harvey famous for explaining? _______________

11. Who invented the microscope? __________________________________________

12. Who’s the “father of modern chemistry”? __________________________________

13. The law of Conservation of Mass states ___________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

14. How did the Catholic Church react to many of the developments of the Scientific Revolution? _________________________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

 

 

Section Two

15. How did artists benefit from the developments of the S.R.? ____________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

16. What was the “Enlightenment”? _________________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

17. What was the “social contract”? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

18. What did Locke believe citizens could do if the government violated its part of the social contract? ______________________________________________________

19. What is a “philosophe”? _______________________________________________

20. What were the “natural rights” Locke claimed? ______________________________

21. What did Montesquieu believe the best form of government included? ___________ ___________________________________________________________________

22. Who was Voltaire? ___________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

23. Who wrote the first Encyclopedia? _______________________________________

24. What book did Adam Smith write in 1776? _________________________________

 

Section Three

25. Why did the British Parliament pass the Stamp Act? _________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

26. The Stamp Act placed a tax on what? _____________________________________

27. What happened at the Boston Massacre in 1770? ___________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

28. What were the Sons of Liberty protesting when they dumped tea into Boston Harbor? ____________________________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

29. What were the Intolerable Acts? _________________________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

30. Why did the British army march towards Lexington and Concord in April of 1775? ___________________________________________________________________

31. Who was Thomas Paine, and why is he important? __________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

32. Who wrote the Declaration of Independence? ______________________________

33. List three Enlightenment ideas found in the Declaration of Independence.

a.    ______________________________________________________________

b.    ______________________________________________________________

c.    ______________________________________________________________

34. What was significant about the Battle of Trenton? ___________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

35. What was significant about the Battle of Saratoga? __________________________ ___________________________________________________________________

36. What was the final battle of the Revolutionary War? __________________________

37. _______________________________ was the treaty that ended the war.

38. The first government of the US was established in what document? _____________ ___________________________________________________________________

39. List two weaknesses of this first government:

a.    ______________________________________________________________

b.    ______________________________________________________________

40. What is a “federal system” of government? _________________________________ ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________

41. List two Enlightenment ideas that are found in the Constitution (not Bill of Rights):

a.    ______________________________________________________________

b.    ______________________________________________________________

 


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