NeoClassicism or Enlightenment 17501820

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Neo-Classicism or Enlightenment (1750-1820)

• Heres a question for you..
• What do you do when your bedroom becomes so
  cluttered that you cant stand it any more?
• People at the end of the Baroque period were
  tired of the clutteredness that had filled their
  lifestyle.
• They longed for a simpler, ordered, more refined
  way of life and society.

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• Also known as the Age of Enlightenment
• There was a revolt against the excessiveness of
  the Baroque era. People wanted a more refined,
  classic feel (a return to classic Greek
  thought), ordered, balanced, symmetrical.
• There was an acknowledgement that the conditions
  of life could only improve with time and that
  each generation made life even better for those
  following PROGRESS!
• Enlightenment, reason, and progress are secular
  ideas and the age became increasingly secular.
• More and more, people were pulling away from the
  Church. Toleration increased and corporal
  punishment for any offense became less common.

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• Advances in science continued physics,
  astronomy, mathematics, mineralogy, botany,
  zoology, classification of fossils, rocks,
  minerals, plants, knowledge of oxygen and
  hydrogen
• Telescopes, microscopes, barometer, thermometer,
  air pump were all developed during this time
  period.
• This led to better to advances in medical tools.

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• Better tools led to better construction leading
  to better roads leading to better
• Can you see why this period is called the Age of
  Enlightenment?

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Enlightenment Thought

• People became concerned with more than just
  invention. They wanted to help all of humanity
  HUMANITARIANISM helping out the outcast,
  downtrodden, homeless

• This kind of thought led to a belief that all men
  and women had a right to dignity and happiness
  and they questioned political, judicial and
  economic policies.

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Meanwhile, in America..

• 1769- 1st Steam Engine
• 1775-1783- American Revolution
• 1776- Declaration of Independence
• 1788- 1st Steamboat
• 1789- George Washington becomes 1st US President
• 1792- KY becomes a state
• 1793- Cotton gin