Reform and Revolution

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Reform and Revolution
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What is Reform?
Reform means to change an existing institution
What is Revolution?
Revolution means to destroy or replace an
existing institution
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American Revolution
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French Revolution
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Scientific Revolution
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Suffrage Movement
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Civil Rights Movement
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The Reformation
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1500 1600 1700 1800 1900
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Reform and Revolution

• Calvinism
• Anabaptists

• God has chosen a special group of believers
  called the elect (predestination)
• Geneva
• a theocracy
• A model city of highly moral citizens to
  Protestants
• Everyone attended religion class
• No bright colors or card playing
• No dancing or gambling
• The state was made up of sinners
• True Christians should form separate communities

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The Mennonites
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Reform and Revolution

• Henry VIII

• Argued with the pope that he should be able to
  divorce Catherine of Aragon
• She could not produce a male heir
• Convinced parliament to declare England
  independent of all foreign authorities
• Act of Supremacy recognized the Church of
  England as a separate body led by the King
• Church was almost identical to Catholic Church
  except Henry could divorce

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Reform and Revolution

• Catholic/Protestant Conflicts

• Peasants revolt
• 1525
• War in Germany
• 1545-1555
• St. Bartholomews Day Massacre
• 1572
• The Elizabethan Settlement
• 1559

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Homework Questions

• If you could solve any of the worlds problems
  would it require a reformation or a revolution?
  Explain.
• Who had a better reason to break from the
  Catholic Church Martin Luther or Henry VIII.
  Explain.
• Define theocracy. Are there any modern day
  countries that could be described as theocracies?