1. Warm Up # 28
How could you prove that you exist, how do we know that all of life is not fake?

2. Revolutions Test Thursday Dec. 14th
Revolutions Unit
Revolutions Test Thursday Dec. 14th

3. Revolutions Big Questions
What are the rights and liberties that, when denied, lead people to revolt?
How did social and economic structures lead to revolutions in France, Russia and China?

4. Enlightenment Notes Essential Question:
How did ideas from the Enlightenment begin to change individuals thoughts on government?

5. The Enlightenment Also known as the Age of Reason 1650’s – 1776
Emphasizes analysis, reason, and individualism
Coincides with the Scientific Revolution
Use logic to make all decisions = Rationalism
Trust nothing, test everything
Challenges Romanticism, Authority, and the Catholic Church
Cogito Ergo Sum

6. What spurred the Enlightenment?
Availability of books (including the Bible)
Printing Press (Ind. Rev. again!!)
Increased literacy rates
Use of the scientific method

7. Enlightenment Ideas Social Contract Theory
Thomas Hobbs, Leviathan (1651), Jean Jacque Rousseau
Governments and citizens have an unwritten contract
People willingly give up their individual freedoms to live under the rules of a government who serves them
If they no longer benefit the people, they should no longer give up their individual freedoms.

9. Natural Rights / Natural Law
John Locke (1689)
There are rights that we are given by God and no one can give or take them away, not even the king
Life, Liberty, Property

10. 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 instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government

11. The General Will Jean Jacque Rousseau
Laws are made to force all to act for the good of the collective and not the self, which is then better for self too.

12. Enlightenment Notes Essential Question:
How did ideas from the Enlightenment begin to cause revolutions?