Making a Difference: Some key ideas of the Age of Enlightenment

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Making a Difference

Statement of Inquiry: 

Revolutionary changes in technology can lead to positive and negative impacts on a global and sustainable society.  

Key Concept: Change

Related Concept: Innovation & Revolution

Global Context: Globalization & Sustainability 

Making a Difference

Today:

Repeat: Quiz Questions about the Age of Enlightenment.

and...

Was the Industrial Revolution created out of the Enlightenment period?

Text Analysis and Questions.

What is the heliocentric theory?

1. There is no sun
2. The sun is smaller than the Earth
3. The sun in the center of the universe
4. There is no moon

What did Mary Wollstonecraft write?

1. The U.S. Declaration of Independence
2. Vindication of the Rights of Women
3. The French Constitution
4. Dialogue on the Two Chief World Systems

Which of these Enlightenment thinkers developed theories and ideas about the Law System?

1. Locke
2. Wallstonecraft
3. Blackstone
4. Diderot

Barometers, thermometers and microscopes helped improve...?

1. The Age of Exploration
2. The ability to study nature
3. Nature
4. The environment

What did Thomas Hobbes believe?

1. Humans should hurt other humans
2. Humans are all so kind and wonderful
3. Humans are naturally cruel, selfish and greedy
4. Humans should go to church every day

Which one does not relate to the others?

1. absolute monarchy
2. gorvernment protect rights
3. positive view of people
4. Locke

Who developed the idea of the three branches of government?

1. Locke
2. Rousseau
3. Montesquieu
4. Hobbes

Whose philosophical ideas about life and liberty influenced the way that Thomas Jefferson worded the Declaration of Independence?

1. Locke
2. Rousseau
3. Hobbes
4. Smith

Who wrote about absolute monarchs being the best form of government in his book "Leviathan"?

1. Locke
2. Hobbes
3. Rousseau
4. Smith

John Locke believed that the purpose of government was to protect people’s natural rights...

1. True
2. False

During the Enlightenment, many people placed their faith in...

1. reason
2. the militairy
3. the curch
4. science

How did Isaac Newton come up with the idea of gravity?

1. someone told him
2. An apple fell on his head
3. He read a book about it
4. he fell down

Who argued against harsh punishments and felt that punishment should be severe enough to outweigh the potenal benefits of the crime?

1. Beccaria
2. Locke
3. Montesquieu
4. Hobbes

Life, Liberty and Property or the Pursuit of Happiness...

1. Natural Rights
2. Democracy
3. Anarchy
4. Divine Rights of Kings

Making a Difference

Go to Google Classroom and read the text source: Connect the Enlightenment to the Industrial Revolution 

Answer the questions on the following slides. 

"The Industrial Revolution is a term we use to describe one of the most studied but one of the most complicated periods of social and technological change ever."

Give one important argument why this subject could be so complex.

"Fashion was born and everyone, from the apprentice to the lord wanted to show that they had a sense of it."

Explain in about 50 words how this sentence descibes a possible connection between the Enlightenment and the Industrial Revolution.

"New foods, drinks and tobacco replaced what had gone before and the people enjoyed them but they needed to be paid for and so changes in working patterns in society started to emerge."

In about 50 words, describe how working patterns in society changed.

"It brought together new thinkers and many of these new thinkers were ordinary people who would achieve extraordinary things."

Explain in about 50 words what brought together these new thinkers.

The inventors, engineers and industrial entrepreneurs had the industrial side sorted. But, what they failed to do was to consider the social impact of their rise.

In about 100 words, explain with at least 3 examples the social impact of the rise of the industrial entrepeneurs.

"Where were the enlightened thinkers who would consider the immense pressure placed upon the poorest members of society?"

Explain if the ideas about equality and liberty during the Age of Enlightenment arrived on time during the Industrial Revolution.

"Such was the extent of it’s industrial trades it was known as the Workshop of the World".

Explain in about 50 words and with the use of examples from the text if you would live in 18th century Birmingham, the 'Workshop of the World'.

"New civic buildings were developed, the Town Hall opened in 1834, the Birmingham & Midland Institute in 1857 the Central Library in 1865, the Council House 1879, Mason Science College 1880 and the Museum & Art Gallery 1885. But was this really enlightenment?"

Explain in about 100 words and with the use of examples from the text if the improvements made in the city of Birmingham were truly projecting the Age of Enlightenment. (Tip: try to get some inspiration from the stories in the 1901 Birmingham Daily Gazette)

Justify in about 200 words the following statement:
"The Industrial Revolution was created out of the Enlightenment period".

Support your justification with examples from the text source.