Warm Up

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Warm Up

• 1. What is the Enlightenment?
• 2. What issue did Mary Wollstonecraft advocate
  (argue for)?
• 3. What 2 ideas did Montesquieu believe in and
  share with others?
• 4. Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Happiness
  came from what philosophe?

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Impact of the Enlightenment
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Enlightened Absolutists/Despots
Draw three circles surrounding the title, one
circle for each ruler

• Rulers who tried to use Enlightenment ideas to
  govern
• Frederick the Great
• Prussia, 1740-1786
• Kept power for himself, reforms were to
  strengthen country
• Reformed schools and prisons, abolished torture
• Maria Theresa Joseph II
• Austrian Empire, 1780-1790
• Most successful use of Enlightenment principles
• No torture or death penalty, free food medicine
  for poor
• Forced to take back most changes before his death
• Catherine the Great
• Russia, 1763
• Greatest hopes, but least successful peasant
  revolts
• Forced people into serfdom

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Enlightened Absolutists
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Catherine the Great- Poker Face

• http//www.youtube.com/watch?vSI8UmlYNFNQlistPL
  C8ACBA72AB38CB21index29

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What do you KNOW.

• about the American Revolution?
• (write it down)

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Seven Years WarCrash Course- The Seven Years'
War

• 1756-1763- involved Austria, France, Russia
  against Great Britain and Prussia
• In Europe not much changed, Prussia gained some
  land from Austria
• Land and power- CAUSES
• In North America- called French and Indian War
• British soldiers and navy defeated French and
  Native Americans
• Ended with Treaty of Paris of 1763, made Britain
  leading colonial power

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Seven Years War
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American Colonies

• English colonies
• 1607- Jamestown
• 1620- Plymouth
• 1630- Massachusetts Bay
• England- occupied in 1600 and 1700s but left
  alone - -salutary neglect
• 7 Years War left Great Britain in debt, taxed
  colonies to help pay off debt
• Colonies objected to taxes
• Boston Massacre 1770, 5 colonists killed by
  British soldiers
• Formed 1st Continental Congress 1774 in
  Philadelphia

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Boston Tea Party/Boston Massacre
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Paul Revere

• Listen my children and you shall hearOf the
  midnight ride of Paul Revere,On the eighteenth
  of April, in Seventy-fiveHardly a man is now
  aliveWho remembers that famous day and year.
• He said to his friend, "If the
  British marchBy land or sea from the town
  to-night,Hang a lantern aloft in the belfry
  archOf the North Church tower as a signal
  light,--One if by land, and two if by seaAnd I
  on the opposite shore will be,Ready to ride and
  spread the alarmThrough every Middlesex village
  and farm,For the country folk to be up and to
  arm."
• From the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere by
  Longfellow

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Colonies were individual entities and the people
knew that in order to defeat the British they
would have to ______________________?
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Declaration of Independence

• Too Late to Apologize A Declaration!

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The American Revolution Crash Course- American
Revolution

• July 4, 1776 Thomas Jefferson wrote Declaration
  of Independence
• George Washington head of army
• Colonists severely outnumbered
• France biggest help to colonies in war
• Saratoga- turning point in war
• Yorktown- 1781, final battle
• Treaty of Paris of 1783
• formally ended war

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• 3 Branches of Government
• Bill of Rights!

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US Government

• Articles of Confederation
• 1st form of govt
• didnt work
• central govt too weak
• Constitutional Convention 1787
• Federal System power shared by federal
  (national) and state governments
• Separation of power into 3 branches-
• Legislative branch makes laws (Congress)
• Executive branch enforced laws (President)
• Judicial branch interprets laws (Supreme court)
• Ratification fight b/c people felt govt too
  strong
• Federalists (pro-Constitution) v.
  Anti-Federalists (anti-Constitution)
• Compromised over adding Bill of Rights to protect
  individual liberties

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Federalists and Anti-Federalists
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Persuasion writing.

• You are a young American colonist in the early
  1770s. Write a short letter to your newspapers
  editor stating why you support independence from
  Great Britain and which enlightenment philosophe
  influences your opinions the most.
• Explain your reasons and be creative!