AP World History: Modern / Unit 5: Revolutions (c. 1750–1900)

5.1 The Enlightenment

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Notes

Thinkers applied reason to society: Locke (natural rights), Montesquieu (separation of powers), Rousseau (social contract), Voltaire (tolerance), Adam Smith (free markets). Ideas inspired revolutions and reform movements (abolition, women's rights: Mary Wollstonecraft).

Practice

Montesquieu is known for the idea of:

Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations argued for:

Mary Wollstonecraft argued for:

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