Hansen 1 Skye Hansen Yarbrough English 5-21-2012 In the eighteenth century, the Deceleration of Independence gave the Americans true freedom. New inventions also started making the world becoming more modernized in technology (Bellis, Mary). The Great Awakening was a major part of religion (Religion in Eighteenth Century America). The mothers became more dominant than the fathers during the era, and children had a lot of roles to take (Mintz, Susan). All of these facts describe the eighteenth century.
It’s important to know about the past lives and how around the 1800’s the United States started expanding. One of the European ideas was John Locke, who was an English philosopher, and one of the Enlightenment thinkers. John Locke influenced Thomas Jefferson and also the Declaration of Independence. He maintained that people had Natural Rights to Life, Liberty, and Property. Locke had a social contract which meant that people chose their own government as long as the government agrees to protect their natural rights.
(15 points) ________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ Document 1: The following quotes come from Enlightenment thinkers from the 17th century: • 1A. How do these quotes summarize the new ideas about government from the 18th century? • 1B. How did the Enlightenment encourage change? Document 2: This excerpt is from John Locke’s Two Treatises of Government.
How did the Enlightenment threaten traditional culture?- A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and that were just as scientific as the laws of physics. 5. What caused the American Revolution? (Full Answer)- The British government had long imposed taxes to pay for the cost of troops stationed in the colonies to defend against French forces in Canada. When the British gained control of Canada from France fewer troops were needed.
The colonist of America to their self no bigger believed they were or wanted to be British citizens so the Americans dragged Britain in 1775 by starting the revolution and the creating their own government in 1776. The French revolution on the other hand was start by a group out of the third estate made of merchants, artisans and professional known as the bourgeoisie. The bourgeoisie brake out in revolution due to tour major events: desire for a wider political role, the wish for -restraints on the power of clergy, monarchy and aristocracy, population growth and the Poor harvest of 1787-1788. The methods taken by the Americans and the French to achieve revolution were just as different as the causes of each revolution. On the American
The Enlightenment The Great Awakening Two important movements that changed the 1700’s were the Enlightenment and the Great Awakening. The Enlightenment began in Europe, which stressed reason and natural laws that explain the events. The Great Awakening awoke colonist about the religious fervor after it had started to die down. Both The Enlightenment and Great Awakening were different but had similar consequences for America. The Enlightenment was in the eighteenth century intellectual movement that used the scientific method and reasons that meant obtaining knowledge.
Asses the view that the Enlightenment was the most important cause of the French Revolution? The Enlightenment was an 18th century philosophical movement in Europe that stressed the importance of reason in analysing and investigating. This led to a critical review of existing ideas and social institutions and how they could be changed and improved, through the use of reason. In this period of time a lot of people were becoming more aware of social, economic and political interactions. The idea of monarchy was becoming a disappointing plan.
Initially it was a reaction against the excesses of the preceding Rococo and Baroque style and is described as the opposed counterpart of Romanticism. Neoclassicism first gained influence in England and France, through a generation of French students trained in Rome and influenced by the writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann, the spokesman of neoclassical art. The writings of Johann Joachim Winckelmann,”the father of archeaology”, were important in shaping this movement in both architecture and the visual arts. His books, Thoughts on the Imitation of Greek Works in Painting and Sculpture and Geschichte der Kunst des Alterthums ("History of Ancient Art") were the first to distinguish between Ancient Greek and Roman art, and define periods within Greek art, tracing a trajectory from growth to maturity and then imitation that continues to have influence to the present day. He believed that art should aim at "noble simplicity and calm grandeur", and praised the idealism of Greek art.
The moderate Enlightenment signifies commitments to economic liberalism, religious toleration and constitutional politics. In contrast to its moderate incarnation, the radical Enlightenment conceives enlightened thought through the prism of revolutionary rhetoric and classical Republicanism. Some commentators argue that the British Enlightenment (especially figures such as James Hutton, Adam Ferguson and Adam Smith) was essentially moderate, while the French (represented by Denis Diderot, Claude Adrien Helvétius and François Marie Arouet) was decidedly more radical. Influenced as it was by the British and French, American Enlightenment thought integrates both moderate and radical
The interpretation or the meaning of democracy literally means rule by the people. In the French revolution democracy was brought upon because political thinkers and philosophers inspired its people by buying into American idea’s and telling the people that the only way to freedom is to separate the legislative, judicial and executive branches of the government. Technology played an important role in not only the French revolution but within the