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Show Timeline For a thousand years, Europe had been living in the Dark Ages until a series of philosophical, religious and scientific Taught by Alexandra Lutz movements helped turn on the lights. The Enlightenment ALL VIDEOS IN THE ROAD TO began in Europe, but quickly spread throughout America in Alexandra has taught students at every REVOLUTION (1700-1774) the 1700s and helped set the stage for a revolution against age level from pre-school through adult. 1. The American Enlightenment: British rule. She has a BSEd in English Education. Intellectual and Social Revolution The Dark Ages 2. The First Great Awakening: Religious Revival and American Independence Since the collapse of the Western Roman Empire in the fifth century, Europe's mostly illiterate 3. The French and Indian War: Causes, population had been guided by superstition, fear Effects & Summary of an angry God and ignorant obedience to authorities who may or may not have their 4. Sons of Liberty: Resistance to the subjects' best interests at heart. Unable to read Stamp Act and British Rule the scriptures or the law for themselves, their only option was to obey or not obey - and challenging 5. Boston Massacre: Colonists and the Major events leading to the Age of Reason the authority of the king or the church often Declaratory and Townshend Acts resulted in a slow and painful death. A thousand years later, that finally began to change. 6. The Boston Tea Party, Intolerable Acts & First Continental Congress A series of intellectual and spiritual movements prompted some individuals to suggest that humans had been living in the Dark Ages. A renewed awareness of old knowledge, combined with developments in science, theology and philosophy, helped turn on the lights, so to speak. This movement, spanning the College Courses 18th century, is known today as the Enlightenment, or the Age of Reason. The Renaissance, Scientific Revolution And Reformation Business First, the Renaissance reawakened knowledge of science, art and culture that had been lost during the 1 of 4 4/24/14 12:25 PM The American Enlightenment: Intellectual and Social Revolution... http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-american-enlig... Middle Ages and began to shift the focus of these disciplines to humans rather than the divine. Higher English rates of literacy then ushered in the Scientific Revolution, and human knowledge increased rapidly, laying Foreign Language the foundation for a scientific, rather than religious, world view. History At the time, it was controversial to explain the natural world in a way that didn't involve any spiritual force. Galileo, for example, was imprisoned for the rest of his life after announcing that the Earth revolves Humanities around the Sun, because religious authorities said he was challenging scripture. Galileo was a religious man and didn't intend to undermine the Bible. But gradually, all of this new scientific knowledge did lead a Math lot of people to question some of the traditional teachings of their churches. Science Martin Luther went so far as to say the established church was interpreting the Bible incorrectly. His Social Science protest led to the Protestant Reformation and broke the monopoly of power held by the Catholic Church. Support The Age Of Reason High School Courses People began to wonder that if the church had been wrong about the natural world or even the AP Bible, maybe it could be wrong about other things, Common Core too. The Age of Reason gave rise to a completely new way of thinking. Instead of trying to understand GED how God orchestrated everything in their lives, High School people started to consider how they might shape the world around them. The result was a new The actions of Martin Luther instigated the Protestant Reformation emphasis on scientific discovery and a boom in higher education. Reading someone else's Other Courses experiment wasn't as good as conducting your own. Accepting what you'd been taught by others wasn't as good as challenging and modifying their assumptions. This was especially true of the relationship College & Career Guidance between people and the institutions in authority over them. Courses During the Middle Ages, Europeans were taught that God had orchestrated events to put their monarchs College Placement Exams in charge. Who were you to question their divine right? But then England was plagued by political turmoil, Entrance Exams and a series of failed governments in the 1600s disrupted the English monarchy, prompting Enlightenment thinkers to consider how their philosophy might apply to government. General Test Prep Enlightened Ideas Of Government K-8 Courses In 1689, an Englishman named John Locke published an anonymous essay titled Two Treatises of Skills Courses Government. In the first treatise, Locke argued that no monarchy had a divine right to exist; kings held power by the luck of their birth. Locke's second treatise, stating that governments should only exist by the Teacher Certification Exams consent of the governed, was more influential in America. As you might imagine, Locke's ideas were unpopular with the people who held power in England, and he never acknowledged that he was the author of the Two Treatises. MEET OUR INSTRUCTORS Other Europeans contributed enlightened ideas of government, as well. The Baron de Montesquieu proposed that society might benefit from a separation of government powers. Jean-Jacques Rousseau went so far as to suggest that society should be ruled by the 'general will' of the people, essentially advocating for direct democracy. Benjamin Franklin was a major figure during the American Enlightenment The American Enlightenment The Enlightenment reached the colonies through the port cities. At first, such philosophy circulated only among the educated elite. Then, Benjamin Meet all 53 of our instructors Franklin, arguably the single most important figure of the Enlightenment in America, printed inexpensive pamphlets and newspapers to spread the ideas quickly. He published Poor Richard's Almanack to entertain the colonists and instill Enlightenment values in them. While Europeans considered, discussed RELATED ARTICLES and sifted through these ideas for a century, Americans put them into practice. Related Recently Updated Popular Free from the kind of entrenched power that had dominated Europe for centuries, a generation of young American leaders was absolutely willing to question not only the role of the king, but the churches and even God Himself. A theology, known as rational Christianity, emerged. It taught that God gave humans 10 Great Study Abroad Locations for the ability to reason, allowing them to understand and follow moral teachings, regardless of which History Students religious group they belonged to. Religious tolerance became even more widespread. Do Schools Really Need to Teach History? Many Americans moved toward Deism, a philosophical belief in a deity based on reason rather than faith. In Deism, God is sometimes compared to a watchmaker who makes a watch, winds it up and then 2 of 4 4/24/14 12:25 PM The American Enlightenment: Intellectual and Social Revolution... http://education-portal.com/academy/lesson/the-american-enlig... leaves its maintenance to the person who owns it. Deists believed that God created the world and set Is Studying History Still Important? natural laws into motion and then his work was done. It is up to humans to keep the world running. Deists Campus Events that Shaped History do not believe that God supernaturally intervenes in the world or human events. Some of the founding fathers, like Thomas Jefferson, were Deists. Many others were strongly influenced by Deism, even if they Higher Ed Seeks to Create Living History didn't claim to follow it. for Students and Community Though a few Enlightenment thinkers discarded religion altogether, most tried to reconcile their belief in Learn History in the Blogosphere: 10 Top God with science and philosophy. One important result was the belief in human rights - that if God History Blogs created the world with laws that governed it, then He must have also established such natural laws for the humans He created. Americans began to believe that the intended role of government was to protect Online History Majors: Information and these God-given rights. Requirements Combining these concepts of reason, enlightened government, religious tolerance and natural rights Career and Salary Info for a Masters Degree resulted in the American version of republicanism. Don't confuse the Enlightenment philosophy of in History Support republicanism with the modern political party. At the time, it was a complete reversal of the idea of divine Career Options for a History Major right. Divine Right teaches that a ruler gets authority from above - he or she is chosen by God Himself. Republicanism teaches that a ruler gets authority from below - leaders are chosen by the masses. By Course Requirements for a History Major: contrast, citizens get their rights from God, not from the monarch. Overview of Core Courses Republicanism gained wide-spread acceptance in America.
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