Enlightenment Ideas bring Revolutionary Ideas to the Colonies Historical People #1 Enlightenment Ideas bring Revolutionary Ideas to the Colonies

Enlightenment Ideas brings Revolutionary Ideas to the Colonies Essential Question: (see last slide) List each enlightenment thinker and explain their enlightenment ideas Explain how each of their ideas helped shape the United States

The Enlightenment in France and England The Enlightenment was an attempt to correct the problems of Europe through logic and reason. They believed science, logic and reason could provide all of the answers to the problems of society. Natural Rights Separation of Powers Social Contract Women’s Rights

The Enlightenment The Enlightenment was an intellectual movement centered in Paris, France Those involved were writers, professors, journalists, economists and social reformers Most of them were from Nobility and middle class. This is what the Enlightenment set out to do - Enlightenment Salon

John Locke “To understand political power aright, and derive it from its original, we must consider what estate all men are naturally in, and that is, a state of perfect freedom…” -John Locke

Charles-Louis Montesquieu https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x8QaGc-vpcU

“In the state of nature all men are born in equal, but it can not continue. The Society makes them lose this, and they recover it only by the laws.” -Montesquieu

Jean-Jacques Rousseau https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VqOaG24aPSc Social Contract: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5EyAle6uYo0

Jean-Jacques Rousseau “To renounce liberty is to renounce being a man, to surrender the rights of humanity and even its duties.” Rousseau

Enlightenment in America British colonies part of European society. Enlightenment ideas find their way to the British colonies. Thomas Jefferson and others encounter the works of Enlightenment thinkers and carry them into the American Revolution. British colonies part of European society. Enlightenment ideas find their way to the British colonies. Thomas Jefferson and others encounter the works of Enlightenment thinkers and carry them into the American Revolution.

Thomas Jefferson, 1743 - 1826 Supported separation of church and state. He was the principal author of the Declaration of Independence. He believed in democracy rather than aristocracy 3rd President of the United States. Supported separation of church and state. i. Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom, 1779 and 1786. Principal author of the Declaration of Independence. i. Inspired by John Locke. Believed in the ideology of governing a nation as a democracy, with an emphasis on liberty, rule by the people, and the civic virtue practiced by citizens. ii. Republicanism always stands in opposition to aristocracy, oligarchy, and dictatorship. 3rd President of the United States. i. Louisiana Purchase in 1803. ii. Louis and Clark Expedition 1804 – 1806. Jefferson achieved distinction as an horticulturist, statesman, architect, archaeologist, paleontologist, author, inventor, and the founder of the University of Virginia, among other roles. When President John F. Kennedy welcomed forty-nine Nobel Prize winners to the White House in 1962 he said, "I think this is the most extraordinary collection of talent and of human knowledge that has ever been gathered together at the White House—with the possible exception of when Thomas Jefferson dined alone." Thomas Jefferson

Thomas Jefferson and the Declaration of Independence https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yb7MI8NQLoo

James Madison, 1751 - 1836 The “Father of the Constitution.” Put in the constitution: Separation of Powers. Executive Branch = President Legislative Branch = Congress Judicial Branch = Supreme Court 4th President of the United States. The “Father of the Constitution.” i. They said it then, they say it now. Separation of Powers. i. Executive Branch = President ii. Legislative Branch = Congress iii. Judicial Branch = Supreme Court 4th President of the United States. James Madison

James Madison https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EivTHLKaa9s Pay attention to his role in the writing of the Constitution and the Federalist Papers

Answer the Essential Question by completing this grid: Draw this grid on your paper List each Enlightenment Thinker Write his main Enlightenment ideas Explain how his ideas helped shaped the United States Name Ideas How did these ideas shape the U.S.?