MARY WOLLSTONECRAFT - Wrote Vindication of Rights of Women calling for equal education for girls and boys to be able to participate equally in politics
DENIS DIDEROT DENIS DIDEROT WILLIAM WILBERFORCE - Advocated abolition of slavery
WILLIAM WILBERFORCE - Influenced Paine to write Common Sense calling on the U.S. colonists to revolt from British rule
- Influenced the American and French Revolutions and Latin American independent movements
- Influenced the creation of the U.S. Bill of Rights and constitution and French constitution
- Influenced the abolition of the slave trade in the early 1800’s
ENLIGHTENED DESPOTS (absolute monarchs who ruled by enlightened principles) - FREDERICK THE GREAT OF PRUSSIA - practiced religious tolerance, outlawed torture, and created a fair law code
- CATHERINE THE GREAT OF RUSSIA – created a more just legal system, prohibited torture and religious persecution
- MARIA THERESA and JOSEPH II OF HAPSBURG AUSTRIA – abolished serfdom, reformed the tax system, gave middle class citizens more say in government, ended censorship, practiced religious tolerance
As you walk in, please turn to page 7 – read the conversation and answer the questions. - As you walk in, please turn to page 7 – read the conversation and answer the questions.
What is the Enlightenment? Why did it begin? - What is the Enlightenment? Why did it begin?
- What was John’s Locke’s main idea? What type of government did he promote?
- What was Montesquieu’s main idea?
- What type of government did Hobbes promote?
- What was the main ideas of Voltaire?
- What is Rousseau’s main ideas?
- What is Adam smith known for?
- How did Enlightenment ideas spread?
- Do Now: What does revolution mean? What may cause people to start a political revolution?
- REVOLUTION = CHANGE
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