1. 18th Century Intellectual Movement
The Enlightenment
18th Century Intellectual Movement

2. Intellectual Movement
During the 18th century, certain thinkers and writers, primarily in London and Paris.
They believed that they can enlighten(open their minds) every one in Europe
Voltaire
Rousseau
Locke
Diderot

3. Enlightenment Thinkers
These thinkers believed that human reason could be used to combat:
Ignorance,
Superstition
Tyranny

4. Enlightenment Targets
Their principal targets were:
Religion
the Catholic Church in France
Hereditary aristocracy.
Royalty, the Rich

5. Economic Change
People had begun to move from rural estates to the towns in search of increased freedom and prosperity.

6. Political Change
As trade and communication improved, because of the change.
People could write new charters, form new governments, pass new laws, begin new businesses.

7. Social Change
A new class of merchants brought back wealth from Asia and the Americas, partially displacing the old aristocracy.

8. Enlightenment in America
Many American intellectual leaders in the colonies were drawn to the Enlightenment.
Jefferson, Washington, Franklin, and Paine were powerfully influenced by Enlightenment thought.

9. American Revolution
The language of natural law, of inherent freedoms, of self-determination which was the language of the Enlightenment in America
Separated geographically from most of the aristocrats against whom they were rebelling.

10. Heritage of the Enlightenment (3)
It formed the consensus of international ideals by which modern states are judged.
Human rights
Religious tolerance
Self-government

11. Chart
Make a chart comparing and explaining the American colonies and England.
Must include:
Type/forms of government
Origins of each government/nation
Laws that they had (3 each)(Simular or different)
How did the Enlightenment affect these nations
Where they were influence by this era,; examples.
Why did the US part ways with the UK? (using the information that you gathered?)