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good afternoon, everybody. so for the last six weeks in this class, we ve been examining the political fog of the imperial crisis. that is, we ve been looking at the debates between british imperial officials and american wig patriots. that debate has really, in many ways, come down to one issue. which is, broadly speaking, what is the british constitution, and how does it define relations between the mother country and her colonies? more specifically even, the real question is, what is the political constitutional relationship between the power and the authority of the british parliament and america s colonial legislatures? and over the course of about 12 years, between 1764 and 1776, the british parliament passed a series of laws. in 1764, it began with the sugar act. then a year later, the stamp act. then in 1767, 68, the townsend act. tea act. 1775, the prohibitory act. standing behind all these acts of british legislation was one, overarching piece of legislatio ....
all right, welcome everyone like we were talking about last class. we are now shifting a little bit into a conversation and discussion about some of these i would say these essential themes of 18th century america. we ve spent the last what couple months talking about, you know these regions, you know, and how the colonies developed how those colonies became integrated into the mercantile empire right if the british empire the cultural empire today, we want to start with our first major theme and that is we want to talk about a little bit about intellectual history today and this movement in 18th century america, really it begins in late 17th century america, but this movement known as the enlightenment. now when you think about the enlightenment? what kind of things come to mind? yeah, lexus benjamin franklin. okay that why benjamin franklin? he kind of like to freedom livery like when we talk about like liberalism. okay sense and john locke as well with like the freed ....
that is we want to talk about a little bit about intellectual history today and this movement in 18th century america, really it begins in late 17th century america, but this movement known as the enlightenment. now when you think about the enlightenment? what kind of things come to mind? yeah, lexus benjamin franklin. okay that why benjamin franklin? he kind of like to freedom livery like when we talk about like liberalism. okay sense and john locke as well with like the freedoms that come. all right, so certainly and we ll talk about this actually in the next couple of class periods. right? certainly. the enlightenment is about politics in some ways right natural rights, right and we ll get back to this good what else comes to mind the enlightenment. this is by the way, isn t this isn t this the class when you were in high school taking history, you know, like, oh we re doing the enlightenment today. i find you know this when you you re kind of eyes glaze over and you ....
would say these essential themes of 18th century america. we ve spent the last what couple months talking about, you know these regions, you know, and how the colonies developed how those colonies became integrated into the mercantile empire right if the british empire the cultural empire today, we want to start with our first major theme and that is we want to talk about a little bit about intellectual history today and this movement in 18th century america, really it begins in late 17th century america, but this movement known as the enlightenment. now when you think about the enlightenment? what kind of things come to mind? yeah, lexus benjamin franklin. okay that why benjamin franklin? he kind of like to freedom livery like when we talk about like liberalism. okay sense and john locke as well with like the freedoms that come. all right, so certainly and we ll talk about this actually in the next couple of class periods. right? certainly. the enlightenment is about p ....
into a conversation and discussion about some of these i would say these essential themes of 18th century america. we ve spent the last what couple months talking about, you know these regions, you know, and how the colonies developed how those colonies became integrated into the mercantile empire right if the british empire the cultural empire today, we want to start with our first major theme and that is we want to talk about a little bit about intellectual history today and this movement in 18th century america, really it begins in late 17th century america, but this movement known as the enlightenment. now when you think about the enlightenment? what kind of things come to mind? yeah, lexus benjamin franklin. okay that why benjamin franklin? he kind of like to freedom livery like when we talk about like liberalism. okay sense and john locke as well with like the freedoms that come. all right, so certainly and we ll talk about this actually in the next couple of clas ....