Chapter 17 Test Review
Composer of the "Messiah":
Handel
The Constitutional Convention began as:
A meeting to revise the Articles of Confederation.
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, poet and nun, advocated the ________ of women.
Education
Montesquieu's most lasting contribution to political thought was his:
Analysis of the system of checks and balances.
Wrote 'On The Fabric of the Human Body', which presented a careful and accurate examination of human anatomy.
Andreas Vesalius
Created the scientific method:
Francis Bacon
Fredrick the Great is credited with making ________ a great European power.
Prussia
Made Great Britain the world's greatest colonial power:
The Treaty of Paris in 1763
The Treaty of Paris in 1783 granted the Americans control of:
The western territory from the Appalachians to the Mississippi River.
Developed a philosophy based on the idea "I think, therefore I am":
Rene Descartes
The greatest figure of the Enlightenment was ________.
Rene Descartes
Who has been rightly called the father of modern rationalism?
Rene Descartes
The American nation's first constitution:
The Articles of Confederation
Ten amendments that guaranteed certain freedoms:
The Bill of Rights
Long considered the greatest genius of the Scientific Revolution:
Isaac Newton
________ invented a system of naming the elements and is regarded by many as the founder of modern chemistry.
Antoine Lavoisier
The American nation's first constitution was called the:
Articles of Confederation
Architect of the Church of the Fourteen Saints:
Balthasar Neumann
The first ten amendments to the Constitution of the United States are called the ________.
Bill of Rights
Believed the universe was heliocentric:
Copernicus
Was the first to argue that the sun, not the Earth, was the center of the universe.
Copernicus
Isaac Newton's universal law of gravitation.
Every object in the universe is attracted to every other object by a force called gravity.
First country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American State:
France
Was the first country to grant diplomatic recognition to the new American state.
France
_______ was a Greek physician whose medical ideas dominated the medieval world.
Galen
First European to study stars using a telescope:
Galileo Galilei
Commander in chief of the Continental Army:
George Washington
The work of ______ shows the use of enchantment in the rococo style.
Giovanni Batista Tiepolo
Adam Smith believed in laissez-faire, by which he meant that:
Government should not control the state or business.
Galileo's observations seemed to indicate that:
Heavenly bodies were composed of material substance.
Believed members of society should be forced to follow a social contract:
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
Argued that every person was born with a tabula rasa, or blank mind:
John Locke
During the Enlightenment ________ tried "to lower religion to the level of the lowest people's capacities."
John Wesley
________ of Austria initiated many reforms including abolishing serfdom and eliminating the death penalty.
Joseph II
The idea that the state should not interfere with the economy:
Laissez-faire
To Voltaire and many other philosophes, the universe was:
Like a clock.
The War of the Austrian Succession began because ________ ascended to the throne.
Maria Thereasa
One of the first advocates for women's rights was ________.
Mary Wollstonecraft
John Locke's ideas suggest that people were:
Molded by experiences.
Composed The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, and Don Giovanni, three of the world's greatest operas.
Mozart
The intellectuals of the Enlightenment:
Philosophes
The ________ theory stated that the sun was the center of the universe.
Ptolemaic
Earth at the center of a series of concentric spheres:
Ptolemaic system; geocentric
Created a federal system in which power would be shared between the national government and the state governments:
Separation of Powers
Blank mind:
Tabula Rasa
As a result of the Treaty of Paris in 1763:
The French left India to the British.
Well known for his criticism of Christianity and his strong belief in religious toleration:
Voltaire
According to the Ptolemaic system:
The universe is a series of concentric spheres.
Francis Bacon, an English philosopher, believed scientists should:
Use inductive reasoning.
Which British head of cabinet acquired Canada and India?
William Pitt the Elder
The army of Cornwallis surrendered to the combined American and French forces at ________.
Yorktown