Enlightenment and the American Revolution

ENLIGHTENMENT
Page 176: Please read the following section and answer these questions
  1. What is the Enlightenment and who are its key historical figures.
  2. How was the Scientific Revolution directly related to the development of the concept of natural law.
  3. How did Hobbes and Locke differ in their views on the role of government?
  4. How is laissez-faire policy different from mercantilism?
  5. Who were the “Enlightenment Despots?

AMERICAN REVOLUTION

Page 184: Please read lesson 3.5 and complete the following tasks

  1. Describe how Britain became a global power.
  2. Why did Americans believe they had the same rights as English citizens?
  3. What was the colonists issue with “taxation without representation?”
  4. How did the ideas of the Enlightenment influence the United States Constitution and the Bill of Rights?
  5. List ONE reason why you think historians contend that the American Revolution was NOT that revolutionary. List one reason why you think historians contend that the American Revolution WAS revolutionary
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                                                             FRENCH REVOLUTION
            Page 190: Read the section and answer the questions below
1.How did the lives of the Third Estate differ from the lives of the clergy and nobles?
2. What were some of the main reasons France was in serious economic trouble in the late 1700s?
3. Why did the Third Estate want the Estates-General to meet a a single body?
4. What were two key causes for the Parisian attack on the Bastille?
5. What was the Declaration of the Rights of Man and what was its significance?
6. Give examples of the powerful role of women in the French Revolution?
7. How did the National Assembly try to reform the French Catholic Church?

DEFINE:
bourgeoisie
estates general
Marie Antoinette
Louis XVI


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