The Enlightenment influenced the American Revolution and development of The Deceleration of independence, new government, and free religion creating a freer place for people with more rights.
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Hobbes
“Hobbes called this agreement, by which people created government, the social contract.” Hobbs believed that the people and government should have a social contract and if that should be broken the people have a right to rebel. He believed the social contract contains rights for people and without that the people have a right to go against the government. -
Locke
“According to Locke, all people are born free and equal, with three natural rights— life, liberty, and property,” Locke said all people are to be born free and have three rights. The right to be free, not to be a slave, Liberty and the right to own property. -
Voltaire
“Voltaire never stopped fighting for tolerance, reason, freedom of religious belief, and freedom of speech.” Voltaire believed that people should have the right to freedom of speech. That people have the right to speak there mind. -
Montesquieu
“Montesquieu proposed that separation of powers would keep any individual or group from gaining total control of the government.” Montesquieu knew that one person could not have all the power but to be split up among groups of individuals. Each group does not have more power than another but to split the power up evenly between them. -
American Revolution
“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal” The American Revolution encouraged equality for all people and the Enlightenment also was about that and had that same idea. -
Citation
“Declaration of Independence: A Transcription.” National Archives and Records Administration, National Archives and Records Administration, www.archives.gov/founding-docs/declaration-transcript. -
Government
“ in which he argued for a constitutional government with three separate branches, each of which would have defined abilities to check the powers of the others,” Montesquieu said that the government should not have all the power, but it should be divided equally, not one person having more power than another. -
Citation
“Separation of Powers under the United States Constitution.” Wikipedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 10 Apr. 2019, en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_powers_under_the_United_States_Constitution. -
Citation
Editors, History.com. “Declaration of Independence.” History.com, A&E Television Networks, 27 Oct. 2009, www.history.com/topics/american-revolution/declaration-of-independence. -
seeking independence
“the introduction effectively stated that seeking independence from Britain had become “necessary” for the colonies.” From being separated from Britain allowed the American people to seek independence and let them have more of a voice. It gave them more of a voice because they were separated from Britain and Britain was controlling so then they would have more power. -
Deceleration of independence
“and he was given the task of producing a draft of what would become the Declaration of Independence.” The Declaration of Independence is what “Hobbs believed in the Social Contract. The Social Contact was written between government and people and stated that if one of them did not abide by it, the people have a right to rebel. -
Religion
“Religion played a major role in the American Revolution by offering a moral sanction for opposition to the British-” Voltaire said in the Enlightenment that government and religion should be separated and the American Revolution did that. -
Citation
Galloway, et al. “Religion and the Founding of the American Republic Religion and the American Revolution.” Religion and the American Revolution - Religion and the Founding of the American Republic | Exhibitions (Library of Congress), 4 June 1998, www.loc.gov/exhibits/religion/rel03.html. -
Rousseau
“argued that civilization corrupted people’s natural goodness. “Man is born free, and everywhere he is in chains” Rousseau believed that civilization corrupted people. People are not born evil but mankind has made them into that.
