Enlightenment ideas--- The enlightenment thinkers and their ideas lead to the american revolution resulting in the colonist gaining freedom from the British.
By myawilliams
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Locke
John Locke believed that all people were independent and had right to freedom, John Locke also believed that every person had the right to Life, health, Liberty, and the pursuit of happiness , the people also had a right to overthrow their government if they felt it was corrupt or unfairly just. His beliefs also include that not one person should not have all of the power, and that the things one person sees is alright or fair is evil or wrong in someone else's eyes.( Black & Beck 551) -
Charles Montesquieu
Montesquieu, a french enlightenment thinker believed in the separation of branches, dividing the government into three parts; judges, parliament, and the king. As a man who truly believed in the government,Montesquieu thought that everything was made up of rules and they never changed. Montesquieu also thought that all people were not created to be equals and believed in slavery, and that women were weaker and should not be in control of the house hold.( Black & Beck 553) -
Separation of Power
Separation of power is when the government broke up into three parts, the Judicial branch, The Executive branch, The Legislative branch. Separation of power was influence by the enlightenment thinker Montesquieu.(ncsl.org) -
Quartering act
The Quartering act , this was an act that highly benefited the British soldiers, the act stated that a British soldier has the right to come into enter an Americans home and stay for as long as they wanted they also had aright to take their things like food.( britannica.com ) Voltaire spoke against this, and the government. -
The Declaration of independence
The declaration of independence, written in 1776 by Thomas Jefferson a political leader at the time was based off of the enlightenment thinker John Locke beliefs in natural rights, and his belief that if the people believed that their government was being unjust they could be overthrown, as stated in the text," are absolved from all allegiance to the British crown."(Black&Beck 643) The declaration of independence states that it was for everyone even people that hold the crown because of Locke. -
Thomas paine
Thomas Paine believed that Americans should fight for their independence from Great Britain, he encouraged people to make a change which gave them more of a purpose, and that was to fight for their country.(alphahhistory) -
The social Contract
The idea of the social contract that came from Roseau was put into the Declaration of Independence.Roseau believed that the people should be involved in making the social contract not the government, and that the government should respect their natural rights and if they did not then the people had the right to form their own independent government by themselves. -
Voltaire
Voltaire refused to believe in the authority of the church.Voltaire was a deist, he believed that their was indeed a god but not that god plays an active role in everyday life. Voltaire also thought that democracy was dangerous and unpredictable, he felt that the only effective government was a monarch government.(Black & Beck 552) -
Rousseau
One of the many beliefs of Rousseau is that laws could not be unfair is everybody, or the general population favored the law, Rousseau was the creator of the social contract, Rousseau also believed to have a just society that civil liberty and freedom are needed.Rousseau got some of his ideas for the social contract from John Locke.(Black & Beck 553) -
Bill of Rights
Bill of rights are also known also known as the ten amendments, the amendments protects the basic human rights such as free speech, assembly,religion and press, The ideas coming from Voltaire the enlightenment thinker. -
Cesare Bonesana Beccaria
Beccaria believed in fair justice and that laws are there to preserve order in a society and not to avenge crimes. Beccaria was against capital punishment and believed that everybody should have fair and speedy trials, and that their punishment should match up with their crime. -
Work CIted Pt. 2
~Beck, Roger B. World History: Patterns of Interaction. McDougal Littell, 2005.
, The Editors of Encyclopaedia. “Quartering Act.” Encyclopædia Britannica, Encyclopædia Britannica, Inc., 12 July 2016, www.britannica.com/event/Quartering-Act. -
Work Cited pt. 1
~“A Summary of the 1765 Stamp Act.” Home Page of History.org :
The Colonial Williamsburg Foundation's Official History and
Citizenship Site, www.history.org/history/teaching/tchcrsta.cfm.
~“Parliament Passes the Quartering Act.” History.com, A&E
Television Networks, www.history.com/this-day-in-
history/parliament-passes-the-quartering-act.
“Thomas Paine.” Biography.com, A&E Networks Television, 8 Mar. 2018, www.biography.com/people/thomas-paine-9431951 -
Boston Tea Party
Boston tea party was anything but a party, The Boston Tea arty was a protest against taxes and their high prices.The protestees protested by acting as pirates and dumping all of the tea into the Boston Harbor. Since the government didn't include the colonist in the taxation debate, this gave the colonist's the right to overthrow their government, as Rousseau highly believed in.(ouramericanrevolution)
