Happy Monday to you! Please get both papers Please open your notebook to a new page (no journal) Era 5 Map due this Wed/Thurs Supplemental Reading Assignment due this Friday Quest Ch.17 this Friday Ch.18 Study Guide due Monday (next week)
Ch.17 The Atlantic Revolutions The revolutionaries drew inspiration from the Enlightenment philosophers. What kind of revolution was the American Revolution?
Before French Revolution After French Revolution
Le Marron Inconnu =Unknown slave blowing a conch trumpet to begin the Haitian Revolution.
Locke Social Contract Gov’t protects the peoples’ rights People consent to be governed But what if the gov’t doesn’t protect their rights?
Voltaire Argued for religious toleration and for freedom of speech Famous quote: “I disagree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
Holy Roman Empire
Montesquieu Separation of gov’t power: Legislative Executive Judicial
Where do we see these ideas? U.S. Declaration of Independence 2) Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen 3) Bolivar’s Jamaica Letter
Overall, they stressed the importance of expanded suffrage, abolition of slavery and the end of serfdom.
America: Civic nationalism America: Civic nationalism. Grievances by the British led Americans to seek independence. Germany: Ethnic nationalism. Otto von Bismarck united Germans in a series of short wars. Italy: Civic & Ethnic nationalism. Liberal ideas, resistance to foreign powers, idealizing ancient Roman empire.
Women’s Suffrage & Feminism Some Notable Contributions: 1) Mary Wollstonecraft’s A Vindication of the Rights of Woman 2) Olympe de Gouges’s Declaration of the Rights of Woman and the Female Citizen 3) Seneca Falls Convention (1848)
Seneca Falls Convention