Terrific Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 Agenda: Warm-up Warm-Up – Google Classroom FN: The Enlightenment HomeFun: Answer EQ from notes Warm-Up – What does it mean to be Enlightened? Why would a country want “Enlightened” leaders? 3-5 sentences

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The Enlightenment U.S. History Chapter 1 Section 1

Today’s Standard Essential Question analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence. Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded. Topic: The ideas of the Enlightenment How did the Enlightenment philosophes want to change government? 11.1 11.1.1 Essential Question

The Enlightenment (1700’s) Ancient Societies/ Renaissance Enlightenment Scientific Revolution English Bill of Rights Declaration of Independence American Revolution French Revolution Causes of the Enlightenment Popular Sovereignty Natural Rights A mvmt. that believed reason could be used to improve the world. Questioned government, religion, economics & education… EVERYTHING! Separation of Powers Social Contract What Inspired this movement? Renaissance – rebirth of Athenian knowledge (philosophers) Scientific Revolution - the use of reason & logic to question all of nature’s laws Glorious Rev. both was inspired by it and helped to move it forward. Enlightenment was a new movement questioning all aspects of society – government, religion, economics & education Reached its height in the late 1700’s This movement inspired two other revolutions & established democracy as we know it Freedom of Speech Effects of the Enlightenment Declaration of the Rights of Man

John Locke (1632-1704) people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property no one can take them away without good reason It is the gov’t job to project them Argued that rights come from a social contract – an agreement in which the people consent to choose and obey a government so long as it protects their natural rights Locke believed in the right to revolution if the government fails to do this Locke believed that only the educated should count in society CSS 11.1.2

Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1716) believed that elected government was the best kind he did, however, believe that the success of a democracy depended upon maintaining the right balance of power separation of powers would reduce tyranny (taking rights away without reason) he thought England - which divided power between the king (who enforced laws), Parliament (which made laws), and the judges of the English courts (who interpreted laws) - was a good model of this CSS 11.1.2

Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778) Rousseau believed that instead of “divine right” government authority came from the consent of the governed. he called it the “popular will” – AKA Popular Sovereignty Believed in Direct Democracy over any other type of government. CSS 11.1.2

Conclusion the Enlightenment brought back Greek and Roman concepts of science, art, philosophy, politics, and individuality the Founding Fathers borrowed from the ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment philosophers of England and France Jefferson, Franklin, Madison applied the ideas of Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu natural rights government by consent separation of powers separation of church and state “We the people…” CSS 11.1.2