do now: do you believe everything that your religion tells you? why or why not?
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Do Now:Do you believe everything that your religion tells you? Why or why not?
faith reason
11.1.1Describe the Enlightenment and the rise of democratic ideas as the context in which the nation was founded.
Roman Senate
The Assassination of Julius Caesar, 44 BC
King Louis XIV Queen Elizabeth 1
King Louis XIV Queen Elizabeth 1
God made me king.
God made me queen.
That idea is called “divine
right”
Isaac Newton
Did you hear of Newton’s discovery?
Enlighten = to inform, to “to turn on a light”
The Universe is governed by natural laws!
Voltaire
God is like a clockmaker. He
designed the universe, but He does not interfere
with how it runs.
Voltaire
That idea is called deism.
God is like a clockmaker. He designed the universe, but He does not interfere
with how it runs.
There is a social contract between
the people and the government.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau
The king rules us because we allow
him to rule us.
John Locke
The king rules us because we allow
him to rule us.
John Locke
That idea is called
“consent of the
governed”
Mary Wollstonecraft
We should educate girls just like we educate boys.
Benjamin Franklin
People should be free to worship in
any way they please.
That idea is called freedom
of religion.
Benjamin Franklin
People should be free to worship in
any way they please.
George Washington
The people should be the boss, not the
king.
George Washington
The people should be the boss, not the
king.
That idea is called
“popular sovereignty”
Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal.
Thomas Jefferson
All men are created equal.
That idea is called
egalitarianism.
Writing the Declaration of Independence
I wonder if this experiment is going
to work.
• faith
• reason
•divine right
• social contract
• consent of the governed
• popular sovereignty
• deism
• egalitarianism
• natural laws
• freedom of religion
Enlighten = to inform, to “to turn on a light”