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Katherine Lee 5/09/2024
Unit 5 - 9
The ENLIGHTENMENT
The Enlightenment <--> Scientific Revolution
Definition: an intellectual movement that applied
new ways of understanding approaches to both
the natural world and human relationship.
Ideas developed from the scientific revolution
Rationalism
Reason is the most reliable
source of true knowledge
Empiricism
Knowledge gained through experimentation
Extension of the scientific revolution
In human society
Questions the role of Religion
Began in Europe (Christianity)
Churches holds power in the state
God cannot be questioned
shift of authority
Outside to inside of a person
New Belief Systems
Deism
A god that created the world
but doesn’t intervene afterwards
Atheism
Reject of religious beliefs
New Enlightenment Ideas
Individualism
Focus of individual human
and not collective groups
Natural Rights
Humans born with rights that
is protected by the government
John Locke (life, liberty, and property)
rights cannot be taken away from the monarchs
Social Contract
Construct government in their
own will to protect their rights
have the right to overthrow a bad government
Effects of the Enlightenment Ideas
Major Revolutions
American, French, Haitian, and
Latin American revolutions
Rejection of established traditions
New ideas on how political power ought to work
Nationalism
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Commonality among people with shared
language, religion and social customs
Suffrage
Right to vote
1776 - whites with land only
1800s - All white males
1870 - Black Males can vote
Declaration of the Independence
Abolition of Slavery
Disregard human rights (liberty)
Britain abolished slavery in 1807
Most wealthy country -> from
industrialization-> paid labor
1831 Great Jamaica revolt
Occurred in. British Jamaica
End of Serfdom
Transition from agricultural
economy to Industrial Economy
Peasants protest to abolish serfdom
Calls for Women's Suffrage
Enlightenment ideas of equality
No voting rights
Rise of feminist movement
Olympe De Gouges
Criticize French Constitution
1848 American women gathering to
protest to change the constitutional
amendment for women’s right to vote
NATIONALISM and REVOLUTIONS, 1750 - 1900
Causes of Revolutions
Rise of Nationalism
Commonality among people
that shared the same culture
States used it to foster a sense of unity
Teach nationalist themes in school
Public Rituals
Military service
Russia
Required Russian language
to be spoken in their empire
Backfired in Poland, Ukraine and Finland
Political Dissent
Reject harsh political authority
Safavid Empire
Imposed harsh taxes -> received
rebellion by the militaristic nomad
groups -> caused weakening of the state
Invaders put the end of the Safavid empire
Wahhabi movement
Reform the corrupted form of
Islam in the Ottoman Empire
Long decline of the Ottoman Empire
New Ways of Thinking
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Popular Sovereignty
The power of govern is in the hands of the people
Democracy
People have the right to vote and
influence the policies of the government
Liberalism
Political theology that emphasized
the protection of civil rights
The Atlantic Revolutions
American Revolutions
Began in 1776
British established colonies in America
Had their own culture and government
Seven Years War
Britain war debt substantial
Required the colonies to pay more taxes
With the help of France, US won
Template for nations to
overthrow oppressive power
French Revolution in 1789
French soldiers influenced
by the American Revolutions
Louie 16
Tighten control to pay war debt
The people of France created their government
The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen
Haitian Revolutions
Began in 1791
Hati - colony of France
Most prosperous
Under the leadership of Toissaint Louverture
Haitians revolted and won independence
Latin American Revolutions
Influenced by the enlightenment ideas
Resentment from the increasing
control by their imperial parents
Creoles
European Heritage but born in the Americas
1808 Napoleon's invasion of Spain +
deposition of the Portugues Monarch
Created unstable condition
in the American colonies
Simon Bokivar
One after the other they won their independence
Other Nationalist Movements
Propaganda movement in the Philippians
A Spanish colony
Controlled education
Racial hierarchy
Student traveled to Europe to study
Influenced by the idea
Spanish authorities suppress the movement
Revolution failed
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Unification of Italy and Germany
Nationalist military leader influenced
different states to come together
How the INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION Began
Intro
transition from hand-made
goods to machine-made goods
shift in political balance and
countries became filthy rich
Britain Came First
Great Britain 1750:
abundance of rivers and canals
transportation of manufactured
goods to the markets
geological distribution of coal and iron
power from burning coal
had an abundance of it underground
increase efficiency of the production of iron
for building bridges, machines, and railroads
Abundance of access to foreign resources
massive maritime empire
produces raw materials
India - cotton
North America - timber
improved agricultural productivity
agricultural revolution
increase production of food
crop rotation
Deep soil fertile
seed drill
seed planted efficiently
potatoes from the Colombian exchange
increase in population
Rapid Urbanization
farmers to human labor for manufacturing goods
Legal Protection of the Private Property
laws of protect entrepreneurs
accumulation of capital
wealth gains from the Atlantic slave trade
invest in businesses
Factory System
goods mass-produced by machines
spinning Jenny (textile machine)
powered by water (water frame)
specialized labor
operating the machines
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