1. Warm-up Oct. 18
Describe the period known as the Enlightenment. Include any information you know or think you know.

2. The Enlightenment

3. What was it? A period when people were introduced to new ideas about:
The Enlightenment
A period when people were introduced to new ideas about:
Rights of people
And relationship between the people and their ruler
What was it?

4. When was it? Where? During the 17th and 18th centuries
The Enlightenment
During the 17th and 18th centuries
(1600s and 1700s)
Europe
When was it?
Where?

5. Who were some famous Enlightenment philosophers?
The Enlightenment
John Locke
Natural rights
Social contract
Right to overthrow gov’t
Rousseau
Social Contract Theory
Montesquieu
3 branches of gov’ts
Hobbes
How was he different?
Who were some famous Enlightenment philosophers?

6. Ben Franklin Considered an Enlightenment thinker The Enlightenment
Embraced new ideas about gov’t in his efforts to establish a new gov’t in the colonies
Ben Franklin