1. Terrific Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 Agenda: Warm-up Warm-Up –
Google Classroom
FN: The Enlightenment
HomeFun:
Answer EQ from notes
Warm-Up –
What does it mean to be Enlightened? Why would a country want “Enlightened” leaders?
3-5 sentences

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go to the google search engine and type in “google classroom”
click the button that says you are a student
click on he + sign in the upper right hand corner

3. The Enlightenment
U.S. History
Chapter 1 Section 1

4. Today’s Standard Essential Question
analyze the significant events in the founding of the nation and its attempts to realize the philosophy of government described in the Declaration of Independence.
Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.
Topic: The ideas of the Enlightenment
How did the Enlightenment philosophes want to change government?
11.1
11.1.1
Essential Question

5. The Enlightenment (1700’s)
Ancient Societies/ Renaissance
Enlightenment
Scientific Revolution
English Bill of Rights
Declaration of Independence
American Revolution
French Revolution
Causes of the Enlightenment
Popular Sovereignty
Natural Rights
A mvmt. that believed reason could be used to improve the world.
Questioned government, religion, economics & education… EVERYTHING!
Separation of Powers
Social Contract
What Inspired this movement?
Renaissance – rebirth of Athenian knowledge (philosophers)
Scientific Revolution - the use of reason & logic to question all of nature’s laws
Glorious Rev. both was inspired by it and helped to move it forward.
Enlightenment was a new movement questioning all aspects of society – government, religion, economics & education
Reached its height in the late 1700’s
This movement inspired two other revolutions & established democracy as we know it
Freedom of Speech
Effects of the Enlightenment
Declaration of the Rights of Man

6. Terrific Tuesday, Aug. 18, 2015 Wonderfilled Wednesday, Aug. 19th
Agenda:
Warm-Up
Finish FN: The Enlightenment
Lunchroom Fight II
Home Fun:
Finish Lunch Room Fight.
Warm-Up –
Yesterday we talked about some of the ideas of the Enlightenment. What do you think was the most important idea? Why?
3-5 sentences

7. John Locke ( )
people are born with natural rights to life, liberty, and property
no one can take them away without good reason
It is the gov’t job to project them
Argued that rights come from a social contract –
an agreement in which the people consent to choose and obey a government so long as it protects their natural rights
Locke believed in the right to revolution if the government fails to do this
Locke believed that only the educated should count in society
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8. Baron de Montesquieu (1689-1716)
believed that elected government was the best kind
he did, however, believe that the success of a democracy depended upon maintaining the right balance of power
separation of powers would reduce tyranny (taking rights away without reason)
he thought England - which divided power between the king (who enforced laws), Parliament (which made laws), and the judges of the English courts (who interpreted laws) - was a good model of this
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9. Jean Jacques Rousseau (1712-1778)
Rousseau believed that instead of “divine right” government authority came from the consent of the governed = social contract
he called it the “popular will” – AKA Popular Sovereignty
Believed in Direct Democracy over any other type of government.
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10. Conclusion
the Enlightenment brought back Greek and Roman concepts of science, art, philosophy, politics, and individuality
the Founding Fathers borrowed from the ancient Greeks and the Enlightenment philosophers of England and France
Jefferson, Franklin, Madison applied the ideas of Aristotle, Locke, Rousseau, Montesquieu
natural rights
government by consent
separation of powers
separation of church and state
“We the people…”
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