Philosophers & Revolutions

							                                                                                                                                          Western Political Thought

Comparing Philosophers & Revolutions
10.2 – Students compare and contrast the Glorious Revolution of England, the American Revolution, and the French Revolution and their enduring effects
worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and individual liberty.
        1. Compare the major ideas of philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America (e.g.,
John Locke, Charles-Louis Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Simón Bolívar, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison).

                    John Locke           Charles-Louis           Jean-Jacques            Thomas Jefferson         James Madison             Simón Bolivar
                                         Montesquieu             Rousseau
                             1632-1704               1689-1755               1712-1778               1743-1826                1751-1836                  1783-1830

 Basic
 Philosophy




 English
 Revolution
 1688

 aka
 Glorious
 Revolution




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                    John Locke           Charles-Louis         Jean-Jacques         Thomas Jefferson     James Madison          Simón Bolivar
                                         Montesquieu           Rousseau
                             1632-1704             1689-1755            1712-1778            1743-1826            1751-1836                  1783-1830

 American
 Revolution
 1775-1783




 French
 Revolution
 1789-1799




 Latin
 American
 Revolutions
 1800s-1980s




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                                                                                                                                                                                        Western Political Thought

Comparing Philosophers & Revolutions

                                                                                                                                                             Bolivar
                                                                                                                                Madison

                                                                                                                     Jefferson
                                                                                       Rousseau

                                                               Montesquieu
        Locke                                                                                                                                                                        Bolivian

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1630     40       50        60        70        80        90       1700       10        20        30        40        50         60       70        80          90      1800       10         20       30        40

                                                     English                                                                                American           French              Venezuelan

                                                                                                                                                   Napoleon, 1769-1821
Unit Questions:

       Directly from the standard:
       1. Describe and explain the English, American, and French revolutions’ “enduring effects worldwide on the political expectations for self-government and
           individual liberty.”
       2. Describe major ideas of three philosophers and their effects on the democratic revolutions in England, the United States, France, and Latin America.

       Other content and issues in this standard:
       3. In what ways do revolutions, and the philosophies behind those revolutions, influence each other?
       4. What ironies can you identify in the actions of the governments that emerged from these philosophies? For example, the American Revolution was partly
          based on the idea that “all men are created equal”, yet many Americans held slaves after the Revolution.

       Essential questions or relating to today:
       5. What would each philosopher have to say about the American government today? Is it upholding the goals of its own and other democratic revolutions?
       6. What sorts of philosophies have remained relatively standard across time?




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