Compare and contrast Adam Smith’s and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s view
Test and Primary Source Response: Revolution and Reaction in the 18th and 19th Century
Primary Source Response for Part II Test: Choose 2 of the following questions to answer. Make sure you answer all of the embedded questions.
Each question is worth up to 15 points:
Compare and contrast Adam Smith’s and Jean Jacques Rousseau’s view about the relationship between individuals and societies (community) and then explain how Rousseau is considered by some scholars to be a forbearer of communism?
What is Liberty according to the Declaration of the Rights of Man? Give some examples found in the declaration of why the Enlightenment is considered a major precursor to the French Revolution.
Using your textbook and lecture notes, contextualize the testimonies from the Ashely Mines Commission gathered in 1842 be sure to consider political and social contexts and current and pending labor laws at the time. Use quotes from the document that you think are most important.
According to Peter Kropótkin in Memoirs of a Revolutionist, what was surprising about the reaction to abolition of serfdom in Russia in 1861 among the upper classes why might they have had this reaction?
Part II Test, Short Answer Responses: In 1-2 paragraphs (at most) answer each of the following questions.
What prompted enlightened absolutists to undertake reforms in the second half of the eighteenth century?
Other than sharing a roughly common time frame, what are some of the similarities and differences between the American, French and Haitian Revolutions?
Why was Eastern Europe slower to industrialize than the West?
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