Study Guide for Chapter 17 - The Enlightenment and the American Revolution Terms and People to Know
Ch
17 Sec 1 (pgs 542 – 549)
Natural
Law Immanuel Kant
The Critique of Pure Reason
Enlightenment Thomas Hobbes John
Locke Leviathan
social contract natural rights Two
Treatises on Government Thomas
Jefferson philosophes
Baron
de Montesquieu The Spirit of the
Laws legislative executive
judicial
Voltaire
Letters
on the English
Denis Diderot Encyclopedia
Jean Jacques Rousseau
The Social Contract
The
General Will Germaine de
Stael Catherine Macaulay Mary Wollstonecraft
A
Vindication of the Rights of Women
physiocrats laissez
faire free market
Adam Smith The
Wealth of Nations
Ch
17 Sec 2 (pgs 550 - 556)
Censorship Persian Letters Candide salons
Madame
Geoffrin Rue St. Honore
Wolfgang
Amadeus Mozart baroque rococo
Johann Sebastian Bach George
Frideric Handel
Water
Music Daniel Defoe
Robinson Crusoe Pamela Samuel
Richardson enlightened
despots
Frederick
the Great Catherine the Great Joseph II ( Austria)
La Scala
Ch
17 Sec 3 (pgs 557 – 569)
Common
Sense Thomas
Paine Act of
Union 1707 George III The Thirteen Colonies
The Sugar Act The
Stamp Act Boston
Massacre
Boston
Tea Party Continental
Congress
John Adams George
Washington Lexington and
Concord James Madison
Benjamin Franklin
Declaration of Independence
popular sovereignty
Loyalists Valley Forge checks and balances
Treaty of Paris ( 1781) Yorktown,
Virginia The
Articles of Confederation The United
States Constitution Federal
Republic
The Bill of Rights
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 role the
Enlightenment had on the American Revolution and the events leading to
the
birth of the republic.