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Click on each link below to fill in each answer to the best of your ability on your worksheet.

1) Read these links about the history of the enlightenment and answer questions #1 on your worksheet

• Enlightenment

2) Read the following links on Enlightenment philosophers and fill in the chart information on your sheets

John Locke

• John Locke (Read the beginning and skim the rest)

Thomas Hobbes

• Thomas Hobbes
• Hobbes again

Rousseau

• Rousseau
• Rousseau
• Rousseau and the Enlightenment

Voltaire

• Voltaire Famous Quote (just read the quote on this one)
• Voltaire
• Voltaire

Montesquieu

• Baron De Montesquieu

Rene Descartes:

• Descartes

After you have filled in the chart, please try your best to answer the following three questions. You are all very intelligent and I expect this to be a piece of cake. Many of the philosophies that justified the United States colonies rebelling against the British were based on the ideas of Enlightenment philosophers. I've listed links to these three famous online documents. I have also supplied you with excerpts that you should pay most of your attention to. Please review the documents and the experts to answer the question about how Enlightment ideas influenced the writing of them.

#1) United States Consitution --look at the Preamble, and Sections 1 of Article 1, Section 1 of Article 2 and Section 1 of Article 3.

#2) Declaration of Independence --focus mainly at the very beginning from "When in the Course...Safety and Happiness"

#3) United States Bill of Rights--Look only at the First Amendment of the Bill of Rights

You are finished. Nice work. Just one more thing. In my first visit to your classes, I recall a student mentioning the Hall of Mirrors during your study of the Palace of Versailles. I was very impressed with that knowledge. Glass was incredibly expensive when Versailles was constructed and Louis XIV constructed a hallway that may have been 50 yards full of the mirrors. This summer I went to France and went to the palace. It is amazing. I've included a picture below of me in the hallway with those famous mirrors. Generally the place would be mobbed with visitors but I was the last one to enter that day and I got a picture with no one else around. Very cool.