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Revolutions 5/2/11http//mrmilewski.com

• OBJECTIVE Examine Making Waves.
• I. Administrative Stuff
• -Attendance
• II. The Day the Universe Changed
• -questions on episode9 Making Waves
• III. Homework due Tomorrow!
• -Chapter17 Review
• IV. Homework due Friday 5/6/11
• -Chapter18 Sections 1,2,3
• NOTICE Chapter17 Test Tomorrow!

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Revolutions 5/3/11http//mrmilewski.com

• OBJECTIVE Examine Philosophy in the Age of
  Reason.
• I. Journal18 pt.A
• -Read Chapter outline p.454
• -What was the enlightenment?
• II. Journal18 pt.B
• -notes on the Enlightenment
• III. Homework due Friday 5/6/11
• 1.) Read Chapter18 section1 p.456-460
• -Answer questions (1-7) p.460
• 2.) Read Chapter18 section2 p. 461-465
• -Answer questions (1-8) p.465
• 3.) Read Chapter18 section3 p.466-469
• -Answer questions (1-6) p.469
• Pick 4 questions of your choice

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The Enlightenment

• A movement to shine the light of reason on
  traditional ideas about government and society.
• Thinkers fought against superstition, ignorance,
  intolerance, and tyranny.
• They promoted goals of social well-being, social
  justice, and worldly happiness.
• They rejected divine-right to rule, social
  hierarchy, and a better life in heaven.

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How it started.

• It grew out of the Scientific Revolution.
• As human knowledge about the world grew, so did
  the belief that nothing was out of reach of the
  human mind.
• Using the scientific method, reformers set out to
  combat the problems of society.

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Hobbes Locke

• In the 1600s, English thinkers Thomas Hobbes
  John Locke lived through the English Civil War
  and concluded different things.
• Hobbes said people were naturally cruel, greedy,
  and selfish.
• If people were not controlled they would, fight,
  rob, oppress one another.
• Life in the state of nature would be brutish
  short.

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Social Contract

• Hobbes said in order to escape horrific life in
  the state of nature, humans enter into a social
  contract.
• Social contract an agreement by which people
  give up the state of nature for an organized
  society.
• He believed that ONLY a strong govt could ensure
  an orderly society.
• He supported the belief in absolute monarchy.

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Natural Rights

• John Locke was more optimistic about humans.
• He believed that people were basically
  reasonable moral.
• He believed that people had natural rights,
  life, liberty, property.
• He argued that people had formed governments to
  protect their natural rights that the best
  govt was limited in power and accepted by all.
• He said that if a govt fails to protect peoples
  natural rights, the people had the right the
  duty to over throw that govt.

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Montesquieu

• Baron de Montesquieu, a French guy, studied the
  governments of Europe.
• He concluded that the powers of government should
  be divided into 3 separate equal branches.
• In 1748, he published The Spirit of the Laws in
  which he said The best way to protect liberty
  is to separate power.

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Voltaire

• Freedom of Speech I do not agree with a word
  you say, but I will defend your right to say it
  until my death.

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Rousseau

• 1762, The Social Contract.
• He believed that people were basically good, but
  are corrupted by society.
• In the perfect world people would make the laws
  would also follow them.
• The general will will be directed towards the
  common good of the people.
• He put the good of society first and the
  individual second.

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Revolutions 5/4/11http//mrmilewski.com

• OBJECTIVE Demonstrate Mastery of Chapter17.
• I. Chapter17 Test
• II. Homework due Friday 5/6/11
• 1.) Read Chapter18 section1 p.456-460
• -Answer questions (1-7) p.460
• 2.) Read Chapter18 section2 p. 461-465
• -Answer questions (1-8) p.465
• 3.) Read Chapter18 section3 p.466-469
• -Answer questions (1-6) p.469
• Pick 4 questions of your choice

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Revolutions 5/5/11 http//mrmilewski.com

• OBJECTIVE Examine the concepts related to taxes.
• I. Chapter18 Guided Readings
• Complete the following activities due today!
• -Chapter18 section1 Guided Reading
• -Chapter18 section2 Guided Reading
• -Chapter18 section3 Guided Reading
• -Chapter18 section4 Guided Reading
• II. Chapter18 Homework
• -Complete homework for Chapter18
• III. Homework due Thursday 5/12/11
• 1.) Read Chapter18 section4 p.470-473
• -Answer questions (1-6) p.473
• 2.) Chapter18 Review
• Pick 4 questions of your choice
• NOTICE Chapter18 Test Thursday!

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Revolutions 5/6/11http//mrmilewski.com

• OBJECTIVE Examine how European rulers reacted
  to the ideas of the Enlightenment.
• I. Journal19 pt.A
• -Examine the picture on p.461
• -Answer the caption question on p.461
• II. Journal19 pt.B
• -notes on the salon Britain in the 1700s
• III. Homework Due Wednesday 5/11/11
• 1.) Read Chapter18 section4 p.470-473
• -Answer questions (1-7) p.473
• 2.) Chapter18 Review
• Pick 4 questions of your choice
• NOTICE Chapter18 Test Wednesday!

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Adam Smith

• He is the father of Modern Economics
• He wrote the Wealth of Nations in 1776
• In it he said that governments need to stay out
  of the economy as much as possible. laissez-faire

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The Invisible Hand

• People and business operate in their own
  self-interest.
• Competition acts like an invisible hand which
  will allocate resources to ONLY their most
  productive uses.

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Salons

• Salons informal social gatherings where
  writers, artists, philosophers, and others
  exchanged ideas.
• In the 1700s middle class women started holding
  salons in their homes were the middle class could
  mingle with the nobility and discuss ideas.

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Enlightened Despots

• Frederick the Great
• Catherine the Great
• Joseph II

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The Limeys

• The British believed in mercantilism
• Mercantilism a policy by which nations sought
  to export more than it imported to increase their
  supply of gold silver.
• At the same time the British out paced the
  Spanish in wealth empire and the Dutch in terms
  of trading power they built a constitutional
  monarchy.

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The United Kingdom

• The 1707 Act of Union between England and
  Scotland saw the nations' individual Parliaments
  replaced by the new Parliament of Great Britain.
• After the 1800 Act of Union with Ireland, the
  Dublin Parliament was abolished and Irish MPs and
  Lords were represented in the Westminster
  Parliament.

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Whigs Tories

• The growth of political parties occurred in the
  late 1600s.
• Tories conservative landed aristocrats who
  sought to preserve older traditions supported
  royal authority the Anglican Church.
• Whigs liberals they supported urban business
  interests, religious toleration for protestants,
  and supported Parliament over the crown.
• The Whigs controlled Parliament for most of the
  1700s.

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Cabinet System

• In 1714, the new King of England wasnt English,
  but German.
• To help King George I, who spoke no English, he
  relied on the leaders of Parliament to help him
  run the country.
• His son, who was also German born also used this
  system, King George II.
• This cabinet system gained official status.
• The head of the Cabinet is the Prime Minister.

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Parliamentary System
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Parliamentary System

• By the 14th century two distinct Houses, the
  Commons and the Lords, had developed.
• The Commons involved representatives from
  counties, towns and cities,
• The Lords consisted of members of the nobility
  and clergy.

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King George III

• In 1760, King George III begins his 60 year
  reign.
• He was born in England, unlike dad and grandpa.
• He spoke English loved Britain.
• He was eager to recover powers lost by the crown
  and end Whig domination, chose his own ministers,
  and dissolve the cabinet system.
• Cabinet rule was restored in 1788 following the
  loss of the American colonies.

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