Modern History

2. A new intellectual movement that stressed reason and thought and the power of individuals to solve problems.
4. The belief that God was the creator of this universe, the clockmaker who had set everything in motion.
7. A system in which each branch checks the actions of the other two.
12. An italian scientist who builted the new theories about astronomy.
13. The political leader who wrote the Declaration of Independence.
14. The main artistic style in the late 1700s.
16. A logical procedre created by Galileo Galilei that was based in gathering and testing ideas.
18. The theory that says that the sun stands at the center of the universe.
19. The pen name of une of the most brilliant and influential philosophers of the era.
20. A system in which power was devided between national and state governments.

1. The name of the new ideas that reflected Enlightenment.
3. The social critics of this period in france.
5. A new way of thinking about the natural world based upon careful observations and willingness to question accept belieafs.
6. The greatest english scientist.
8. The belief that the earth was an inmovable object located at the center of the universe.
9. Social gatherings in where philosophers, writers, artists, scientists and other intellects met to discuss ideas.
10. An art style that was characterized by a grand, ornate design.
11. The third greates philosophe who was passionately commited to individual freedom.
15. A ten amendment added by the Congress to the Constitution.
17. A influential french writer who devoted himself to the study of political libert.