Enlightenment and the Formation of the US

  • Locke, John enlightment philosophes

    Locke, John enlightment philosophes
    Lock was a key thinker of the enlightment and he was forced to flee england for Holland.
  • Newton, Isaac Enlightment philosophes

     Newton, Isaac  Enlightment philosophes
    He help forged a new motel which thinkers of the enlightment tried to apply to humity and socitey.
  • Johann Sebastian Bach Enlightment Philosophes

    Johann Sebastian Bach Enlightment Philosophes
    Johann Sebastian Bach influential German soldiers, He also wrote an enormous body.
  • Montesquieu, Charles-Louis Secondat

    Montesquieu, Charles-Louis Secondat
    Born into prominent legal family and he was a lawyer and president.
  • Quesnay, François Enlightment Philosophes

    Quesnay, François Enlightment Philosophes
    Quesnay, François Ended up working for a king. He also hosted meetings and inspired alot of people in this time period.
  • Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet Enlightment Philosophes

    Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet Enlightment Philosophes
    Voltaire, François-Marie Arouet was important to the enlightment at this time because he was the modt domiant enlightment figures.
  • Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Enlightment philosophes

    Rousseau, Jean-Jacques Enlightment philosophes
    He won some kind of award and it push him into the enlightment.
  • Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas Enlightment Philosophes

    Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas Enlightment Philosophes
    Raynal, Guillaume-Thomas publish anecdotes litteaires. The history of colonianlism of european nations and its called "mouthpeice' of enlightment ideas and thought.
  • Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacquesnlightment Philosophes

    Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacquesnlightment Philosophes
    He lead people to the enlightment unfairly.Turgot, Anne-Robert-Jacques also wanted to become part of the government.
  • Grevances of british

    Grevances of british
    The British colonalises were taxing the americans and the americians were getting made because they put all there hard work into what they had to do and then they would get taxed.
  • Founding father John adams

    Founding father John adams
    John adams is the founding father and he was on the committee to draft the declarion of independence
  • Founding father Thomas Jefferson

    Founding father Thomas Jefferson
    Thomas jefferson wascommittee of five that would draft the declaration of independence. He was unanimously picked to write the declaraion of indepence.
  • Declaration of Independence

    Declaration of Independence
    The Declaration of Independence is the name of a statement adopted by the Continental Congress on July 4, 1776, which announced that the thirteen American colonies regarded themselves as thirteen newly independent sovereign states, and no longer a part of the British Empire. John Locke contributed to classical republicanism and liberal theory that are reflected in this declaration.
  • Articles of Confederation

    Articles of Confederation
    The Articles of Confederation was a document signed among the 13 original colonies that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
  • federalist and anti-federalist debates and authors

    federalist and anti-federalist debates and authors
    The constititional convention caused people to argue about how our government is set up, and what political party will have there way. They discused laws an idea greatly thought about by montesquieu. some federalist authors include Hamilton and Madison some anti federalists were Patrick Henry and George Clinton.
  • Northwest Ordinance

    Northwest Ordinance
    It was an act of congress to manage the land between the Ohio River and the Great Lakes. It created the Northwest Territory.
  • U.S. Constitiution

    U.S. Constitiution
    a document that states the supreme law of the land. It has many influences from the Philosophers including Locke, Rousseau and Montesquieu.
  • Founding father geroge washington

    Founding father geroge washington
    Geoge Washington is one of the founding fatherss and also became president in 1789,
  • Bill of Rights

    Bill of Rights
    The first 10 amendments to the U.S. constitution. It took influences from Voltaire
  • French Revolution of 1848

    French Revolution of 1848
    The Revolution of 1848 were a series of political upheavals throughout Europe in 1848, but within a year, reactionary forces had regained control, and the revolutions collapsed. Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, his political philosophy influenced the French Revolution as well as the overall development of political, sociological, and educational thought.