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SPREAD OF ENLIGHTENMENT IDEAS
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Absolute monarchies throughout Europe gave people few rights. New ways of thinking, based in reason, led to new, more secular ideas about the purpose of government.
The absolute monarchs feared that these new ideas would cause them to lose power, so they censored these new ideas. They banned and burned books and jailed writers. Writers like Montesquieu and Voltaire hid their messages in fictional works to avoid censorship.
Like the American colonists, the people of France felt they should have more rights and more say in the government. The people decided to fight back, leading to the French Revolution.
Denis Diderot was another philisophe. He helped spread Enlightenment ideas with his Encyclopedia. Noblewomen also held salons, or gatherings of artists, writers, philosophers who discussed the new ideas. Soon the Enlightenment ideas were spreading across Europe and the world.
The American colonists were inspired by the Enlightenment ideas. They felt they had no individual rights under the rule of the British government, so they declared independence. The Declaration of Independence, along with the U.S. Constitution are both full of ideas from the Enlightenment thinkers.
Now we will make comparisons between the ideas of John Locke's "Declaration of Man" and the United States "Declaration of Independence" to see just how much the Enlightenment influenced our nation.
Eventually, the Enlightenment ideas reached Central and South America, leading to revolutions throughout these lands.
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