Chapter 3

• Classical Liberalism stresses individual freedom and limited government.
• Classical liberalism: the original ideals or form of liberalism
• Liberal essentially means 'free', therefore liberalism is an ideology based on freedom.
• Liberalism stresses the importance of individual freedom and human rationality.
• Classical LIberalism embraces the principles of individualism.
• Classical LIberalism allowed for the emergence of a middle class. Focused on allowing citizens the right to freedom in their economies, political and social lives.
• Classical liberalism originated in Great Britain.
• What is the Classical LIberalism Timeline?

  1347 the Black death, Secularism, Age of Enlightenment, 1688 the Glorious Revolution, 1776 American Revolution, 1789 French Revolution, Industrial Revolution, Liberalism
• Liberalism - A movement born out of the ideas of the enlightenment (political parent) and the Industrial Revolution (economic parent)
• What year was the Black Death?

  1347
• What year was the American Revolution?

  1776
• What year was the French Revolution?

  1789
• Classical Liberalism values political freedom and a free market economy that has limited government intervention within the economy.
• Modern Liberalism is different that classical because it advocates a greater role for the state in society. (government regulations within economy)
• The American and french Revolution in the late 1700s were attempts to implement the ideas of liberal thought.
• Liberal thinkers inspired the American colonists to declare independence from the British crown and establish a republican form of government where governing authority was invested in the hands of its citizens and not a ruling monarch.
• Royal Proclamation Act in 1763 was to assimilate the French and Acknowledge indigenous land rights. Created after Britain won the 7 years war
• 1774 Quebec Act - Accommodates French
• Indigenous Influence on Liberalism in North America: The Great Law of Peace, or the Constitution of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy, established equal participation of the people, including women, in the government. It also guaranteed certain rights and freedoms (freedom of speech and the rights of individuals)