691-697 - Compare excerpts from the Declaration of Independence, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man. - Describe the progression of.

691-697- Compare excerpts from the Declaration of

Independence, Bill of Rights and the Declaration of the Rights of Man.

- Describe the progression of the American Revolution.

The POWER of ideas! The new ideas of the

Enlightenment… … led to the American Revolution… … which led to the French

Revolution!!

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American documents to the French document• Read Declaration of Independence and Bill of Rights• Read Declaration of the Rights of Man

Declaration of Independence &Bill of Rights

Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen

• Uses emotional language

• Specific, logical conclusion

• Persuasive

• Clear complaints

• Reads like a law code

• No conclusion, or next step

• Less persuasive

• States general rights

• Sovereignty resides w/people

• Refers to natural, inalienable rights

• Equality

• Rt to overthrow

• Protect rights of people From a Powerful govt

• Neither mentions slavery or women’s rights

Revolutionary Goals: Enlightenment ideas of liberty and equality greatly

influenced the goals of political revolutions: “Liberty consists of being able to do anything

that does not harm another person.” (Declaration of the Rights of Man, French Revolution).

It was also a call for a new kind of government where the people held “sovereignty” rather than a king.

Social and political equality were also included, how-

ever, not economic equality (only equal opportunity to gain property), nor did this idea include women.

Ancient Greek and Judeo-Christian tradition of individual-ism was strong as well:

The ideas of human dignity, faith in science, rational-ism, no censorship and progress were old ideas but grew popular during the Enlightenment.

John Locke and the baron de Montesquieu were the two most influential philosophes of the period.• Locke that if a government fails to

protect the natural rights of life, liberty and property it becomes a tyranny.

• Montesquieu argued that a constitutional representative government is best to safeguard liberties and rights.

• HOWEVER, this did not mean democracy, but rather voting right be limited to those who held “a stake in society” who owned property (the bourgeoisie).

Revolutionary Goals:

John Locke

Montesquieu

• After Seven Years War, England maintained a colonial army.• “Stamp Act” (1765) was used to tax colonists.• Colonists accustomed to much liberty/freedom.• Boston Tea Party (1773).• Britain responded with the “Coercive Acts” (1773).• First Continental Congress (1774).• Fighting begins at Lexington and Concord (1775)• Paine’s “Common Sense” attacked the idea of Britain controlling the colonies (1776).• Second Continental Congress signs Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.

Steps in The American Revolution(1775-1789)

Signing of the Declaration of Independence (1776)

• After Seven Years War, England maintained a colonial army• “Stamp Act” (1765)• Colonists accustomed to much liberty/freedom.• Boston Tea Party. • Coercive Acts.• First Continental Congress (1774)• Fighting begins at Lexington and Concord (1775)• Paine’s “Common Sense” attacked the idea of Britain controlling the colonies.• Second Continental Congress signs Declaration of Independence July 4, 1776.• France allies with American colonists leading to victory at the Battle of Yorktown in 1781.

Steps in The American Revolution(1775-1789)

Cornwallis’ Surrender at Yorktown:

Painted by John Trumbull“The World Turned Upside

Down!” 1781

North America After theTreaty of Paris, 1783

Components of the Constitution

• Constitution (1787) was further defined with the Bill of Rights (1789)

• Established a “Federal System”• Stressed representative government• Checks and Balances

• legislative• judicial• executive

• This came to be called “Classical Liberalism”- protecting individual freedoms with safeguards in the government.