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1 What do you think the terms Enlightenment and Revolution mean? Explain how you came to those definitions.

2 1/27Enlightenmentpage 46  What was the Enlightenment?  Pick two enlightenment thinkers and explain their beliefs about government.  How did enlightenment thinkers influence thinking on political issues?  Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan  John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government  Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws  Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract  Voltaire: Religious toleration

3 What was the Enlightenment?  Enlightenment thinkers believed that human progress was possible through the application of scientific knowledge and reason to issues of law and government.  Enlightenment ideas influenced the leaders of the American Revolution and the writing of the Declaration of Independence.  Applied reason to the human world, as well as to the rest of the natural world  Stimulated religious tolerance  Fueled democratic revolutions around the world

4 Pick two enlightenment thinkers and explain their beliefs about government.  Thomas Hobbes’s Leviathan: Humans exist in a primitive “state of nature” and consent to government for self- protection.  John Locke’s Two Treatises on Government: People are sovereign and consent to government for protection of natural rights to life, liberty, and property.  Montesquieu’s The Spirit of Laws: The best form of government includes a separation of powers.  Jean-Jacques Rousseau’s The Social Contract: Government is a contract between rulers and the people.  Voltaire: Religious toleration should triumph over religious fanaticism; separation of church and state.

5 How did enlightenment thinkers influence thinking on political issues?  Political philosophies of the Enlightenment fueled revolution in the Americas and France.  Thomas Jefferson’s Declaration of Independence incorporated Enlightenment ideas.  The Constitution of the United States of America and the Bill of Rights incorporated Enlightenment ideas.

6 Exit Ticket  How does the term enlightenment relate to the term Revolution?  8-10 sentences  Yes write the question EnlightenmentRevolution


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