The Enlightenment Revolution influenced the American Revolution by expanding peoples rights, a more stable government, as well as a better representation, creating a more advanced government for the population of the United States. - Sandra Valdez
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Magna Carta 1
"The Magna Carta, written in 1215, established the kernel of limited government, or the belief that the monarch's rule was not absolute. Although the document only forced KING JOHN to consult nobles before he made arbitrary decisions like passing taxes, the Magna Carta provided the basis for the later development of Parliament" (ushistory.com). -
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Magna Carta 2
The Magna Carta which means The Great Charter was made so that everyone is subjected to the law. The people didn’t like that, and they later developed a more equal and justified democracy. Which is very similar to the government system we have today. -
Protestant Reformation 1
"The Protestant Reformation encouraged free thinkers to question the practices of the Catholic Church, and the printing press spread the new ideas relatively quickly and easily. The time was ripe for the Philosophies, scholars who promoted democracy and justice through discussions of individual liberty and equality" (ushistory.com). -
Gutenberg's Printing Press 1
"The ideas and practices that led to the development of the American democratic republic owe a debt to the ancient civilizations of Greece and Rome, the Protestant Reformation, and Gutenberg's Printing Press. But the Enlightenment of 17th-century Europe had the most immediate impact on the framers of the United States Constitution" (ushistory.com). -
Gutenberg's Printing Press 2
Having more freedom really helped many of the citizens living in a community really express what they believed in. It really impacted the United States Constitution and how they view the right of their community and how they could work together as a combined nation of different religions and races. With the help of new innovations, it really assisted as well as impacted how we act on the world today. -
Protestant Reformation 2
Before the Enlightenment and the realization that everyone is different but the same, people were exploring their religion and how they came to be. This created a major opportunity for philosophers to express how they thought, which lead to many researches creating a vaster environment. -
Thomas Hobbes
"One of the first philosophers was Thomas Hobbes , an Englishman who concluded in his famous book, LEVIATHAN, that people are incapable of ruling themselves, primarily because humans are naturally self-centered and quarrelsome and need the iron fist of a strong leader" (ushistory.org).
Hobbes thought that if the government doesn't follow the contract the citizens had the right to rebel. Today they give us the right to protest against something we don't believe in. -
Bill of Rights
"The ENGLISH BILL OF RIGHTS guaranteed free elections and rights for citizens accused of crime. Although KING GEORGE III still had some real power in 1776, Britain was already well along on the path of democracy by that time"(ushistory.org).
The enlightenment thinkers wanted a more equal country and after getting every one on board they wanted to change the government. A democracy was something that worked for many people and their believed. -
Locke 2
Locke thought that we all had our own rights and Thomas Jefferson took that into consideration and he later with the help of others that also believed in Locke’s idea they drafted the U.S. Declaration of Independence. -
Locke 1
"The duty of that government is to protect the natural rights of the people, which Locke believed to include life, liberty and property. If the government should fail to protect these rights, its citizens would have the right to overthrow that government. This idea deeply influenced Tomas Jefferson as he drafted the Declaration of Independence" (ushistory.org). -
Montesquieu
“Montesquieu suggested a separation of powers into branches of government not unlike the system Americans would later adopt. They found eager students who later became the founders of the American government" (ushistory.com).
Montesquieu had the right idea of the three branches of government that we later used to have a better separation of power. -
Voltaire
"Later philosophers, like VOLTAIRE, Montesquieu, and Rousseau were more optimistic about democracy. Their ideas encouraged the questioning of absolute monarchs, like the Bourbon family that ruled France" (ushistory.org).
The French had a very fair government. Voltaire believed that the separation of religion and state would provide for a better democracy, as well as a more evenly divided economy. -
The Stamp Act
"The Stamp Act 1765 passed by the British Parliament in 1765 was the first direct tax imposed on the British colonies in North America. The goal of the tax on printed material including newspapers, magazines, legal documents, insurance policies and many other types of paper material was to help finance for the British troops in the colonies. But the British also sought to reduce their debt which increased dramatically after the French and Indian Wars." (historylists.org). -
The Stamp Act 2
As new ideas were brought up by philosophers they have come up with new innovations to spread there ideas to others and to speak out about their rights. -
The Tea Act
"The tea act which was when they taxed Americans for tea lead to the protest against that. They didn’t want to be taxes if they didn’t get a say in what we believed"(historylists.org).
This really set of the American Revolution, the British wanted America to pay for the French and Indian War. -
Tea Act Rebellion
"The British was in huge debt do the French and Indian war and to pay of that debt they decided to tax Americans with common objects that were used quite daily. Today we do have taxes, but it pays for government, but it also represents us" (historylists.org).
Rousseau really influenced the Tea Act, the dumped the tea into the water because they had the right to rebel which is what Rousseau believed in. This gave the right for the whole community to protest against the taxation. -
Patrick Henry
"Patrick Henry would give a speech in Spring of 1774 in the Virginia House of Burgesses supporting the cause of freedom, which included the oft-quoted passage, 'Give me liberty or give me death'" (bostonteapartyship.com).
What this meant was that that without the liberty or the right to achieve something he would prefer to die. today we have laws set in place so you could do things to a limit. -
Citation
“10 Key Events of the American Revolution.” 10 Key Events of the American Revolution - History Lists, historylists.org/events/10-key-events-of-the-american-revolution.html.
“American Revolution History | Guide To The Revolutionary War.” Best Museums In Boston, www.bostonteapartyship.com/american-revolution.
“Foundations of American Government.” Ushistory.org, Independence Hall Association, www.ushistory.org/gov/2.asp.
