Unit 5 Week 11: Age of Reason

This statement expresses the views of ​ (a)   , and ​ (b)   " Men are born and remain free and equal in rights. It is the duty of every government to preserve and protect these natural, inalienable rights."

Governments should be able to collect money without reason is not a major idea of the ​ (c)  

Nicolas Copernicus, Galileo Galilei, and Isaac Newton promoted the idea that knowledge should be based on ​ (d)   and ​ (e)  

• John Locke
• Jean Jacques Rousseau
• Enlightenment
• experimentation
• observation.

Match the following

•  __________was the justification

       to rule used by European monarchs. 

• Enlightenment

• The ________was an intellectual movement that stressed reason.

• Scientific Revolution

• A new way of thinking about the natural world is called?

• Divine Right

•  Freedom of speech was an important right according to?

• Voltaire

• This person  proposed that a government’s power comes from the consent of the  

        citizens. 

• John Locke

Match the following

• Absolutism

• ____ is a logical procedure for gathering information, 

        observing & testing a hypothesis.

• Scientific Method

•  A________is the idea that equal rights & cooperation between the government &   

       the governed.

• Rousseau

•  Nicolaus Copernicus reasoned that the stars, the earth & other planets revolved around the sun. 

         This is known as

• Social Contract

• ___________ stresses that all the power rests with the king/queen.

• Heliocentric Theory

• _____________ ideas advocated equal rights & cooperation between the government &   

       the governed.

The heliocentric, or sun-centered, theory was proposed by ​ (a)   . Isaac Newton explained the ​ (b)   . "We hold these truths to be self-evident: that all men are created equal, that they

are endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness." was a statement made by ​ (c)   Writers of the Enlightenment were primarily interested in changing the relationship between ​ (d)   and their ​ (e)  

• Nicolaus Copernicus
• law of gravitation
• John Locke.
• people
• government

John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau would most likely support a society in which the ​ (a)   chose the ruler, aka a ​ (b)   Enlightenment philosophes such as John Locke and Jean Jacques Rousseau challenged the idea of the divine right of kings. They wrote about a government's obligations to uphold people's rights and how the government should be based on the consent of the governed.

These new ideas encouraged people to engage in​ (c)   to establish ​ (d)   governments.

Peter the Great & Louis XIV similarly sought to centralize power by limiting the power of the ​ (e)   . ​

• people
• democracy.
• revolutions
• democratic
• nobility

Match the following

•  Divine Right theory

• Jean Jacques Rousseau and John Locke would be most likely to support

• Louis XIV

• Scientific Revolution influenced the _______________ by Questioning assumptions that led to challenging ideas about government.

• A Democracy

• Who would agree with this statement "The person of the King is sacred, and to attack him in any way is an attack on religion itself. Kings represent the divine majesty and have been appointed by Him to carry out His purposes. Serving God and respecting kings are bound together."

• American Revolution

• "God hath power to create or destroy, make or unmake, at his pleasure; to give life or send death; to judge…and to be judged (by) none…And the like power have kings;…" Which idea is described by this passage?

•  Enlightenment Ideas

• What encouraged these ideasLiterate middle class

   American colonists

  Thinkers and artists