CONCEPT REVIEW

SCIENTIFIC REVOLUTION AND ENLIGHTENMENT

Both movements changed people’s thoughts about the world:

 Ideas in scientific technology and theories broke through the

Catholic Church’s authority
 People have the power to reason and prove past teachings wrong
 People are born with natural rights
 Governments should protect people’s rights
Social classes should not be determined at birth
WORDS AND IDEAS ASSOCIATED WITH THE
ENLIGHTENMENT :
 REVOLUTIONS BASED ON THE ENLIGHTENMENT
US Revolution
French Revolution
Latin American Revolutions
European Revolutions during the 1800’s
-Called for the fall of Absolute Monarchies
-Encouraged governments based on social contracts-agreement between
the people and government.
-Believed in Liberty and the Natural Rights of Man-did not support
slavery in Haiti for example
-Focused on the social and political change that worked toward the
common good.
FRENCH REVOLUTION
Causes-debt, poor leadership by the King and Queen, un equal
social classes and taxation, economic troubles and famine, the
Enlightenment
The French Revolution set many other revolutions in motion.
Especially the nationalistic and revolutions for reform in Europe
during the 1800’s.
How do you think history would be different if the Estates-
General would have allowed all members to vote equally when
King Louis called the meeting together in 1789?
 INDUSTRIALIZATION
-First began in Britain due to plentiful natural resources and easy access to
the sea
-Agriculture transformed first which allowed more food to be produced, more
workers to be free of farming on their own and moving into factories to work
and create new technologies.
-Life changed in basic ways from people living on farms to migrating to cities
to work and live an urban life.
-Britain’s main industry was textiles where women and children were
employed under dangerous and unsanitary working conditions.
-In the long term, Industrialization brought countries an increase in their
standard of living due to modern technologies and mass production
INDUSTRIALIZATION AND ECONOMY
Industrialization in Europe led to revolutions because radical
urban workers sought socialistic reforms to level the playing
field for the poor working class and wealthy upper and middle
classes.

Capitalism was an economic system that helped industrialization

flourish. Little rules and government intervention. Communist
Philosophers like Karl Marx despised it because he believed
that capitalism allowed for a few people to prosper and the
others would fall into poverty