1. Unit 2 – The Enlightenment CA Standard 10.2 – Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution and the French Revolution and their enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty. 10.2.1 - Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America

2. Essential Unit Question Why do political revolutions occur? When does change become progress? (You will be answering the Essential Unit Question in the form of short answers at the end of the unit.) End of unit and exam: Friday, September 19th

3. Unit Vocabulary using your textbook, define each of the following: absolute monarchy (pg. 735) divine right (pg. 736) Scientific Revolution (pg. 144) Enlightenment (pg. 144) natural laws (pg. 144) Thomas Hobbes’s argument (pg. 145) social contract (pg. 145) John Locke’s belief (pg. 145) natural rights (pg. 145) Baron de Montesquieu’s belief (pg. 145) Separation of powers (pg. 145) Philosophe (pg. 145) Voltaire’s belief (pg. 145) Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s belief (pg. 147) Mary Wollstonecraft’s belief (pg. 147-148)