About This Lesson
This DBQ asks students to explain how Absolutism and the Enlightenment led to revolutions, and the positive/negative effects. Doc 1 = Bishop Bossuet's theory of absolutism, Doc 2 = development of English Monarchy from Magna Carta to Glorious Revolution, Doc 3 = excerpts from English Bill of Rights, Doc 4 = Enlightenment and John Locke, Doc 5 = Louis XIV and XVI, Doc 6 = Declaration of the Rights of Man and effects of the French Revolution, Doc 7 = Haitian Revolution and Constitution, Doc 8 = Jose de San Martin, Simon Bolivar, and Latin American independence movements.
