1. Section 1: Civil War and Revolution
CHAPTER 20
Enlightenment and Revolution in England and America
Section 1: Civil War and Revolution
Section 2: Constitutional Monarchy in England
Section 3: English Colonial Expansion
Section 4: The Enlightenment
Section 5: The American Revolution

2. Question: What were some of the causes of the English Civil War?
SECTION 1
Civil War and Revolution
Question:
What were some of the causes of the English Civil War?

3. Civil War and Revolution
SECTION 1
Civil War and Revolution
longstanding conflict between royalty and Parliament
Irish rebellion
English Civil War
general population rejected radical Puritans’ attempted changes in the church
efforts of Long Parliament to limit the monarchy’s power

4. SECTION 2
Constitutional Monarchy in England
Question:
What laws did Parliament create to protect against arbitrary rule?

5. Constitutional Monarchy in England
SECTION 2
Constitutional Monarchy in England
Safeguard
Purpose
Habeas Corpus Act
protected individuals from unfair arrest and imprisonment
declared Parliament would choose who ruled the country; subjected ruler to parliamentary laws; prohibited ruler from imposing taxes or maintaining an army in peaceful times without Parliament’s consent; guaranteed free speech for members of Parliament; gave citizens the right to petition the government; declared citizens should not be required to pay excessive bail or be subjected to cruel and unusual punishment
English Bill of Rights
Act of Toleration
granted Protestant dissenters some religious freedoms

6. Question: What are some effects of mercantilism?
SECTION 3
Israel and the Occupied Territories
English Colonial Expansion
Question:
What are some effects of mercantilism?

7. conflict over resources
SECTION 3
English Colonial Expansion
Mercantilism
aggression
colonization
conflict over resources

8. SECTION 4
The Enlightenment
Question:
What were the beliefs of philosophers during the Enlightenment?

9. The Enlightenment SECTION 4 Diderot Montesquieu Voltaire Rousseau
edited Encyclopedia, criticized society
wrote Spirit of the Laws, described “perfect” government
wrote Candide, championed freedom of thought and religion
wrote The Social Contract, believed in sovereignty

10. SECTION 5
The American Revolution
Question:
What British policies were implemented in the mid-1700s, and how did the American colonists react to them?

11. The American Revolution
SECTION 5
The American Revolution
British Policy
Colonial Reaction
Possible British Cause
Colonists were forbidden to settle in the land west of the Appalachian Mountains.
Colonists felt that Britain was curbing their liberties.
Britain wanted to avoid American Indian uprisings.

12. Chapter Wrap-Up CHAPTER 20
1. How did many political writers and philosophers of the 1700s see the relationship between people and their government?
2. What were the sources of the political ideas that led to the American Revolution and the United States Constitution?
3. Why did British policy anger many Americans in the years following 1763?