Study Guide for Chapter 18 - The Enlightenment and the American Revolution

Terms and People to Know

Ch 18 Sec 1 (pgs 454 – 460)

Persian Letters    Baron de Montesquieu    salons      The Enlightenment     Joseph Priestly      Antoine Lavoisier Edward Jenner     natural laws     Thomas Hobbes       social contract      Leviathan       John Locke                        Two Treatises on Government     natural rights    The Spirit of the Laws     philisophes     Voltaire   Candide        Denis Dederot    Encyclopedia     Jean Jacques Rousseau      The Social Contract     Mary Wollstonecraft    physiocrats     laissez faire free market    Adam Smith     The Wealth of Nations

 

Ch 18 Sec 2 (pgs 461-465)

The Age of Reason     salons      Madame Geoffrin    enlightened despots    Frederick the Great   Catherine the Great

Joseph II ( Austria)  baroque   rococo   Bach     Handel    Mozart    Rembrandt     Daniel Defoe    Samuel Richardson

 

Ch 18 Sec 3 (pgs 466 – 469)

Act of Union    constitutional government    Tories and Whigs    The cabinet    George I     prime minister

Robert Walpole   House of Commons   House of Lords   George III

 

Ch 18 Sec 4 ( pgs 470 – 473)

Common Sense     Thomas Paine      Navigation Acts       Boston Massacre       Boston Tea Party

Continental Congress    Benjamin Franklin    Thomas Jefferson    Declaration of Independence

The Battle of Saratoga   Valley Forge      Treaty of Paris ( 1781)     Yorktown     Articles of Confederation

The United States Constitution    Federal Republic   Legislative, Judicial, Executive    The Bill of Rights

limited freedom

 

Ideas to understand

•   How were the ideas of government and the economy linked to the Enlightenment and the Scientific      

     Revolution?

•   How did the ideas of the Enlightenment affect government, the arts, and people’s daily lives?

•   Why and how did Britain emerge as a global power in the 1700s?

•   What were the new political institutions and political parties that emerged in Britain in th 1700s.  

•   How were the 13 English colonies part of a global empire and why did they eventually resent British rule?

•   How did the ideas of the Enlightenment  influence the Americas and what was the global impact of the American Revolution? 

 

Essay Questions ( give specific examples to support your statements )

1.      Describe and explain the ideas of the Enlightenment and the European political thinkers, their works, and how they influenced the world. ( Be specific and support your statements with facts )

2.      Describe and explain the ideas of the Enlightenment and the affects it had on daily life, political leaders, and the arts. (Be specific and give at least three examples)

3.      Describe and explain the rise of Britain as a global power and the changes that occurred in the government and the birth of political parties.

4.      Describe and explain the role the Enlightenment had on the American Revolution and the events leading to the birth of the republic.

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