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Spread of Enlightenment Review

• Paris had become a cultural center of the world

• Salons-social gatherings to discuss art, philosophy, and writing

• Despots-absolute ruler• Enlightened Despot- ruler embracing

the ideas of Enlightenment• Monarchs were now there to serve

the state and support its citizens

Enlightenment Crosses Over

• Americans liked the ideas of Enlightenment

• Locke –separation of powers• _-Right to Life, Liberty, Property (DofI)• Rousseau- “Social Contract” power

comes from the consent of the governed

• Hobbes- that the people need a social contract with their rulers (Constitution)

Enlightenment Crosses Over

• It would be these ideas that help spur on the American Revolution

• Voltaire had taught that progress was needed, changes were happening in England

• Glorious Revolution, change of power– (Bloodless)

• Magna Carta- Limited the power of the king

Fighting Mad

• American colonists had begun to develop a new sence of identity

• Each colony had developed its own government and people were used to some kind of independence

• People were seeing themselves less British and more Virginian or Pennsylvanian

• However they were still British subjects and had to obey British law

Fighting Mad

• In 1754 the British and French had gotten into a war in North America– Remember both the French and the

Engligh had land over here• With the British victory came… the

bill, someone had to pay for the war• Parliament decided that it should be

the colonists who pay for it because they benefited from the war

Fighting Mad

• So without any representation or say in the new taxes passed by Britian, the colonists were being forced to pay off the British debt

• The colonists were outraged, they had never paid taxes directly to the British government before

• British citizens consented to taxes, and without any representation in Parliament, the colonists had no way to argue

Fighting Mad

• Eventually these taxes and a lack of voice in England brought the colonists to the breaking point, they would meet to discuss how to handle the situation

• In 1775 though an exchange of gunfire would “be heard round the world” as the American colonists had begun a revolution against the mightiest power on earth for their independence

Influence of Enlightenment

• Thomas Jefferson would use idea from enlightenment to craft the Declaration of Independence

• In which he expains that England had not given the colonists a chance to present reasons, to think and discuss or even vote

• All things that Enlightenment had taught were important

Influence of Enlightenment

• “We hold these truths to be self-evident”• Enter Locke’s idea of natural rights:• “that all men are created equal, that they

are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, among these are life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.”

• Locke believe that people had right to rebel against an unjust ruler, which Jefferson proclaims that England had been

American Republic

• After America defeated the British, they needed a government and once again turned to Enlightened ideas

• They borrowed Montesqeau’s ideas of separation of powers and divided the government into 3 Branches

• The Bill of Rights would borrow ideas from Voltaire, Rousseau, and Locke to protect the rights of Citizens

Revolution in France

• The same principles we know from the American Revolution will be present in France

• High taxes, economic troubles, and questions posed by Enlightenment philosophers will bring about the French Revolution