Question

How did the Enlightenment lead to the French Revolution?

Answer 1

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Answer 2

Answer:

B) The concept of the social contract encouraged French peasants to overthrow their unfair government and form a new one.

Explanation:

The Enlightenment was a cultural and intellectual movement, primarily European, that began in the mid-eighteenth century and lasted until the early nineteenth century. It was named in this way for its declared purpose of dissipating the darkness of the ignorance of humanity through the lights of knowledge and reason. The eighteenth-century is known, for this reason, as the Age of Enlightenment and settlement of faith in progress. It inspired profound cultural and social changes, and one of the most dramatic was the French Revolution. Enlightenment thinkers and philosophers, like John Locke, Montesquieu, Rousseau, and Voltaire, established the basic arguments for modern democracy and the people's right to participate in politics. The concept of the social contract and the idea that political power was a result of a social agreement among the citizens was a direct threat to absolute monarchy and the concept of divine right to rule. For this reason, these new ideas led French commoners to overthrow the monarchy during the events of the French Revolution.