Enlightenment revolutions practice

Unit 5

John Locke

English; Influenced Declaration of Independence; Life, liberty and the right to own property; Supported constitutional monarchies.

Influenced U.S. government

Thomas Hobbes

English; Supported absolute monarchies, Social contract.

Voltaire

French; Religious liberty ;Freedom of speech; Judicial reform.

Rousseau

Swiss; Social contract(1762); Direct democracy.

Montesquieu

Checks and balances; Influenced USA government.

Influenced U.S government

Suffrage

The right to vote; African Americans gain it after civil war, women gain in in the 20th century.

Causes of American revolution

Enlightenment ideas; Debt from the French-Indian war; Tax on colonists(No taxation without representation); Discontent with monarchy.

When is the declaration of independence signed?

July 4th, 1776 (written by Thomas Jefferson)

American Revolution- Liberal or conservative?

Cause of French revolution

Enlightenment ideas; American revolution; Financial crisis.

When was the bastille stormed?

1789

Important document of French Revolution

Declaration of Man and Citizen

Effects of the French Revolution

Rise of Napoleon