Enlightenment Ideas and Their Impact

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What did Jefferson include in the Declaration of Independence?

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He wrote about “unalienable rights” like life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.

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What did the Enlightenment teach people?

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The Enlightenment taught people to think about how governments could be fairer, protect everyone’s rights, and help society move forward.

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What was paragraph 2 about?

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Governments should have separate parts—like one to make laws, one to enforce them, and one to judge them.

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What was paragraph 9 about?

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Influential enlightenment thinkers who published their works are often attributed with sparking the Englightenment.

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What did paragraph 15 convey?

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These ideas gave the colonists the confidence to fight for their freedom, leading to the American Revolution 

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What was stated in paragraph 4?

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They said everyone deserves a fair trial and that punishments like torture should be abolished.

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What did paragraph 10 encourage?

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It encouraged ideas like freedom, equality, and the belief that people should have a say in how they are governed.

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What did paragraph 3 state?

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Wanted governments to be separate from religion so everyone could believe what they wanted.

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What did paragraph 12 convey?

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The colonists started to feel that King George III and the British Parliament were ruling without their consent.

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What inspired the American and French revolutions?

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The American and French revolutions were inspired by Enlightenment ideas of freedom, equality, and fairness.