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Indicator 7-2.5 Explain how the Enlightenment influenced the American and French revolutions leading to the formation of limited forms of government, including the relationship between people and their government, the role of constitutions, the characteristics of shared powers, the protection of individual rights, and the promotion of the common good.
Today’s Essential Question: At the end of this lesson, you should be able to answer this question: How do the documents of our founding fathers show evidence of the influence of Enlightenment philosophes?
Who were the Enlightenment Thinkers? Voltaire Montesquieu Locke Rousseau
Match the philosopher with what he was most known for…. Voltaire Government should be kept under control though separation of powers Montesquieu A social contract exists between citizens and their government Locke Opposed the absolute power of the king and supported freedom of speech, religion, and press Rousseau People have natural rights to life, liberty, and the ownership of property
Group Investigation There will be five teams: Team Alpha. The Relationship between people and their government. Team Bravo. The role of constitutions. Team Charlie. The characteristics of shared powers. Team Delta. The protection of individual rights. Team Echo. The promotion of the common good.
VOLTAIRE: “Nothing can be clearer than that men, enjoying the faculties of their common nature, are in a state of equality; they are equal when they perform their animal functions, and exercise their understandings. The king of China, the great mogul, or the Turkish pasha cannot say to the lowest of his species, “I forbid you to digest your food… or to think.” All animals of every species are on an equality with one another, and animals have by nature beyond ourselves the advantages of independence. If a bull, while paying his attentions to a heifer, is driven away by the horns of another bull stronger than himself, he goes to seek a new mistress in another meadow, and lives in freedom.” http://ebooks.adelaide.edu.au/v/voltaire/dictionary/chapter184.html “I say, there is scarce any city or borough in Europe, where blood has not been spilled for religious quarrels; I say, that the human species has been perceptibly diminished, because women and girls were massacred as well as men. I say that Europe would have a third larger population if there had been no theological disputes. In fine, I say, that so far from forgetting these abominable times, we should frequently take a view of them, to inspire an eternal horror for them. . . . It is for our age to make amends by toleration, for this long collection of crimes, which has taken place through the lack of toleration during sixteen barbarous centuries.” http://castrovalleyhigh.org/ourpages/auto/2010/9/10/40571378/World184-189.pdf
Group Roles There will be four roles assigned to each team: Reader. The Reader is responsible for reading the assigned passage(s) Recorder. The Recorder will write down any necessary information Regulator. The Regulator is the time-keeper and is responsible to ensure the team stays on topic. Reporter. The Reporter will share the team’s findings with the rest of the class.
YOUR MISSION: The task of your team is to read and analyze the quotes from the different philosophes. Your team is searching for evidence that supports the fact that the Founding Fathers of America used one or more of these writers’ philosophies in their ideas about our government. In other words, where did the Founding Fathers of America get their ideas for the Declaration of Independence, Constitution, and/or Bill of Rights?
Group Investigation TEAM PRESENTATION: Team Alpha. The Relationship between people and their government. What does this mean? What did the Enlightenment Thinkers say? What American document is this thought process revealed in? EVIDENCE:
Group Investigation TEAM PRESENTATION: Team Bravo. The role of constitutions What does this mean? What did the Enlightenment Thinkers say? What American document is this thought process revealed in? EVIDENCE:
Group Investigation • TEAM PRESENTATION: • Team Charlie. The characteristics of shared powers. • What does this mean? • What did the Enlightenment Thinkers say? • What American document is this thought process revealed in? • EVIDENCE:
Group Investigation TEAM PRESENTATION: Team Delta. The protection of individual rights. What does this mean? What did the Enlightenment Thinkers say? What American document is this thought process revealed in? EVIDENCE:
Group Investigation TEAM PRESENTATION: Team Echo. The promotion of the common good. What does this mean? What did the Enlightenment Thinkers say? What American document is this thought process revealed in? EVIDENCE:
Indicator 7-2.5 Explain how the Enlightenment influenced the American and French revolutions leading to the formation of ____________ forms of government, including the relationship between _______________ and their_____________, the role of ___________________, the characteristics of shared _____________, the protection of ______________ rights, and the promotion of the common ____________.
EXIT SLIP: Answer the ESSENTIAL QUESTION on an index card. Give at least one specific example using an Enlightenment thinker and his connection to the forming of American government. How do the documents of our founding fathers show evidence of the influence of Enlightenment philosophes?
