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The Enlightment and the American Revoluton.

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The Enlightment and the American Revoluton.

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Enlightenment and the Beginnning of the American Revolution

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The Enlightenment influenced the American Revolution. These notes explain the events leading up the Revolution and focus on how the Enlightnment played a part in those events.

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"My trade," said voltaire, "is to say what i think," and he did so throughout his long, controversaial life. Voltaire. (probaly the most famous of the philosophes was Francois-Marie Arouet, who took the name Voltaire.

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Worked for years to produce a 28-volume set of books called the encyclopedia. As the editor, Diderot did more than just compile articles.

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empress of Russia, read the works of the philosphes and exchanged letters with voltaire and diderot.

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believed that people in their natural state were basically good.

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studied the goverments of europe, From italy to England

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Their ideas soon spread beyond france and even beyond europe.

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rights that belonged to all humans from birth. These included the right to life, liberty, and property.

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an agreement by which they gave up their freedom for an organized society.

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Two seventeenth century English thinkers, set forth ideas that were to become key to the enlightenment both men lived through the upheavals of the English Civil war.

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rules discoverable by reason, govern scientific forces such as gravity and magnetism.