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•Enlightenment ideas: Liberty,equality,free trade,religious tolerance,republicanism,human rationality,popular sovereignty,natural rights,the consent of the governed,and the social contract
•old ideas were challenged by Enlightenment ideas:
oDivine right of kings was replaced by popular sovereignty and the social contract.
oMonarchy was replaced by republic.
oState control of trade was replaced by free trade.
oAristocratic privilege was replaced by merit and equal opportunity.
oAuthority of a single church was challenged by increasing secularization,religious tolerance,and emphasis on reason.
oIdentity as subject of an empire was replaced by political citizenship.
•The Enlightenment notion that political and social arrangements could be improved by human action inspired revolutionaries to dismantle existing institutions that no longer worked and to create new ones better suited to the times.
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•Enlightenment ideas: Liberty,equality,free trade,religious tolerance,republicanism,human rationality,popular sovereignty,natural rights,the consent of the governed,and the social contract
•old ideas were challenged by Enlightenment ideas:
oDivine right of kings was replaced by popular sovereignty and the social contract.
oMonarchy was replaced by republic.
oState control of trade was replaced by free trade.
oAristocratic privilege was replaced by merit and equal opportunity.
oAuthority of a single church was challenged by increasing secularization,religious tolerance,and emphasis on reason.
oIdentity as subject of an empire was replaced by political citizenship.
•The Enlightenment notion that political and social arrangements could be improved by human action inspired revolutionaries to dismantle existing institutions that no longer worked and to create new ones better suited to the times.
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•Longer colonial experience meant that regional identities were more distinct and deeply rooted
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•Distances among the colonies
•Geographic obstacles (mountains,rivers)to effective communication
•Longer colonial experience meant that regional identities were more distinct and deeply rooted
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•Enlightenment thinkers in eighteenth-century Europe had become increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person,and the public pronouncements of the American and French revolutions about liberty and equality likewise focused attention on slavery as an obvious breach of those principles.
•Some Christians on both sides of the Atlantic felt that slavery was incompatible with their religious beliefs.
•There was a growing belief that slavery was not essential for economic progress.
•The actions of slaves,including both the successful slave rebellion in Haiti and unsuccessful rebellions elsewhere,hastened the end of slavery by making slavery appear politically unwise.
•Abolitionist movements brought growing pressure on governments to close down the trade in slaves and then to ban slavery itself.
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•Enlightenment thinkers in eighteenth-century Europe had become increasingly critical of slavery as a violation of the natural rights of every person,and the public pronouncements of the American and French revolutions about liberty and equality likewise focused attention on slavery as an obvious breach of those principles.
•Some Christians on both sides of the Atlantic felt that slavery was incompatible with their religious beliefs.
•There was a growing belief that slavery was not essential for economic progress.
•The actions of slaves,including both the successful slave rebellion in Haiti and unsuccessful rebellions elsewhere,hastened the end of slavery by making slavery appear politically unwise.
•Abolitionist movements brought growing pressure on governments to close down the trade in slaves and then to ban slavery itself.
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