do now: do you believe everything that your religion tells you? why or why not?

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”