1. Enlightenment

2. Warm up
1st – Find new seats 2nd- Get out homework – goes on notebook page 53 3rd - Pick up your quiz off of my desk and correct the ones you missed. You may use your notes or book. NO TALKING. Put them in the tray when you are finished. 4th -Pick up and complete the Mind Dump from the bookshelf. Put on notebook page 54

3. Warm Up
Pick up 11 flashcards and a bag and label them with the following names/topics
Absolute Monarch
Louis XIV
Frederick The Great
Peter the Great
Heliocentric
Copernicus
Newton
Galileo
Kepler
Jenner
Harvey

4. What did these guys write, how did they feel about humans, which of their ideas are in our government

5. Warm Up- page 54 1. What is an absolute monarch?
2. Who was the Absolute Monarch of France? Where did he live? How did he helped France? How did he hurt France?
3. Who was Frederick the Great? How did he help Prussia?
4. Who was Peter the Great? How did he help Russia?
5. What does Divine Right mean?
6. What was the Scientific Revolution?
7. What did the following scientists contribute to the movement:
A. Copernicus D. Kepler
B. Newton E. Jenner
C. Galileo F. Harvey
8. Describe the difference between the heliocentric and geocentric theories
9. Number your notebook
10.Study for your quiz

6. What was the Enlightenment
Enlightenment- was an intellectual movement. Enlightenment thinkers tried to apply reason and scientific methods to laws that shaped human actions. They hoped to build a society founded on the ideas of the Scientific Revolution.

7. Impact of the Enlightenment
1.    Stimulated Religious Tolerance
2.    Fueled Democratic Revolutions around the world
3.    Rise of Individualism- thinking for yourself
4. Rise of a more secular or worldly outlook

8. Major Players

10. Thomas Hobbes
Wrote Leviathan
English philosopher who argues that all humans are naturally wicked. Believed that an absolute monarchy- one that gives all power to a king or queen- is the best form of government. Thought governments were created to protect people from their own selfishness.

12. John Locke
Wrote Two Treatise on Government
English philosopher who believed that people have the ability to reason and make good decisions if given proper information. Thought governments should be formed only with the approval of the people governing. Argued that governments should be established to protect individual freedoms and liberties. The people, not god, should choose officials

14. Montesquieu-
Wrote- The Spirit of Laws
- French political thinker who believed that a monarchy with limited power makes a country stable and secure. Established the idea of “separation of powers”. This meant government should be divided or spread out among different branches of government so that no individual or group could gain too much power and threaten liberty.

16. Rousseau-
Wrote- The Social Contract-
Swiss philosopher who believed that society had corrupted the natural goodness in people. Argued that only through direct democracy where people vote in person to make all laws- can people’s freedoms be protected. Government should be a contract between rulers and the people

18. Voltaire
A writer who fought for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious beliefs and freedom of speech. He also supported the notion of separation of church and state

19. How it Spread Encyclopedia- published many Enlightenment ideas
1.Salons- wealthy women gathered to discuss Enlightenment ideas.
Encyclopedia- published many Enlightenment ideas
Pamphlets and newspapers helped circulate ideas

20. Enlightenment and Monarchs
The church and French government were angered by Enlightenment ideas and tried to censor their work
2 Enlightenment thinkers tried to change the way governments were run and tried to convince rulers to rule justly. This started revolutions in the Americas and France

21. American Revolution-Do Not Write
Colonies grew from 250,000 to 2,150,000 by the 1700s
Peoples had been living there for 150 years
“Americans”wanted their own identity , Britain wanted more control
Stamp Act- Boston Tea Party
1776- Thomas Jefferson write- Declaration of Independence
Constitution-
Bill of Rights- first 10 amendments

22. Major Ideas of the Enlightenment
Thinker
Impact
Natural rights- life, liberty, property
Locke
Fundamental to U.S Declaration of Independence

23. Do Not Write
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; that to secure these rights, Governments are institute among Men, deriving their just Powers from the Consent of the Governed

24. Separation of
powers
Montesquieu
France, U.S., Latin American nations use separation of power in new constitutions

25. Freedom of thought and expression
Voltaire
Guaranteed in U.S. Bill of Rights and French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; European monarchs reduce or eliminate censorship

26. Abolish.
of torture
Beccaria
Guaranteed in US Bill of Rights; torture outlawed or reduced in nations of Europe and the Americas

27. Do Not Write
Bill of Rights protects rights of accused and prohibits cruel and unusual punishments

28. Religious freedom Voltaire
Guaranteed in US Bill of Rights and French Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen; European Monarchs reduce persecution

29. Rousseau- Direct Democracy Public election of president and congress
Do Not Write
Rousseau- Direct Democracy
Public election of president and congress

30. Review
Who said
“ Power should be a check by power”

31. Need 6 flashcards. Need books written and views on government
John Locke
Thomas Hobbes
Voltaire
Montesquieu
Rosseau
Enlightenment