MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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Enlightenment thinkers who believed in justice and freedom
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followers of Napoleon who believed in a united Europe
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Shopkeepers who stormed the astille
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members of the Estates-General
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Detailed explanation-1: -Enlightenment philosophers John Locke, Charles Montesquieu, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau all developed theories of government in which some or even all the people would govern. These thinkers had a profound effect on the American and French revolutions and the democratic governments that they produced.
Detailed explanation-2: -Freedom of Religion The French Enlightenment philosopher Voltaire wrote several letters and essays about religious freedoms. He claimed that humans should be able to practice their religion freely and without intervention from the government.
Detailed explanation-3: -Some of the major figures of the Enlightenment included Cesare Beccaria, Denis Diderot, David Hume, Immanuel Kant, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz, John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Hugo Grotius, Baruch Spinoza, and Voltaire.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Enlightenment is commonly associated with men whose writing and thinking combined philosophy, politics, economics and science, notably John Locke, Thomas Hobbes, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Adam Smith, Immanuel Kant, Isaac Newton and Thomas Jefferson.
Detailed explanation-5: -Enlightenment thinkers argued that liberty was a natural human right and that reason and scientific knowledge-not the state or the church-were responsible for human progress. But Enlightenment reason also provided a rationale for slavery, based on a hierarchy of races.