The French and American revolutions are both very significant in the world’s history. The American Revolution happened first‚ around the last half of the 18th century where the Thirteen Colonies became the United States of America‚ and gained independence from the British Empire. The French revolution on the other hand‚ was from 1789 until the turn of the century 1799. For the French people this was a period of political and social turmoil. The idea of Enlightenment stuck a large population of the
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The French Revolution that started in 1789 was one of the most influential events in all of human history. It was a time where many of the peasants of France united to overthrow King Louis XVI and his queen‚ Marie-Antoinette. Peasants and lower-class citizens all over France grew tired of being poor‚ and mistreated. Protests grew more violent as the circumstances worsened. Eventually‚ a new government took over and executed the former king and queen. The time after was known as the Reign of Terror
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many revolutions throughout history‚ it is hard to think of one that is more important than the Industrial Revolution. Beginning in the late 1700s north of Britain‚ the Industrial Revolution sought to expand and bolster the economy of Britain and those who were to follow in their footsteps. Britain was the first country to industrialize‚ doing so by having a “robust empire‚ profitable overseas trade networks‚ and established credit institutions” (Coles‚ P. 506). Some may argue that the French Revolution
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The Revolution it was one of the most controversial for terror and killed innocent people for any reason.they abused of the power they have for torture and take over their religion.However they do`t count with the people the trons around against the Revolutionaries so‚ the Jacobin leaders were power hungry Tyrants because of the events of the Reign of terror;beheading at the guillotine‚the attempt to protect the Revolution and the proposal of a ‘Republic of virtues’ First of all‚the Jacobin
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King Louis XIV was on the throne and the ‘Revolution was born in blood’; the French Revolution had begun. The French Revolution began in 1789 on July 14th (Bastille Day) where the commoners of Paris stormed the prison‚ murdered the Governor and the Mayor of Paris. They were not standing for the mismanagement and tyranny of the French monarchy any longer. The Revolution that followed was a bloody massacre of torture and new ideas. Although the French Revolution only caused the people to go from King
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because they were open to change in Enlightenment Ideas; most people paid nearly half their income on tithes to the Church and meaningless taxes‚ and they wanted a noble leader to replace their current weak one. Upon seeing success with the American Revolution‚ members of the third party began to question the long standing structure of their society. They began to quote philosophes like Voltaire and Rousseau because they favored the Enlightenment principle over the Old Regime’s. 4. How did King Louis
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The French Revolution was sparked by a combination of social‚ economic‚ and political factors that had been developing over a long period of time. One of the primary reasons for the revolution was the rising discontent among the French population towards the absolute authority of the monarchy and the unequal power dynamics among the nobility‚ clergy‚ and commoners. French society was divided into three estates‚ with the first two estates of the nobility and clergy enjoying special privileges and
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period in history‚ but all around the world and throughout time. Author Gordon Wood writes about this idea in The Radicalism of the American Revolution. He sees dependency as a characteristic of a society that is pre-modern‚ and often fades after a revolution‚ after which the society is no longer pre-modern. On the American Revolution‚ he writes that‚ "The Revolution became a full scale assault on dependency."(Wood) This quote is relevant to the Venezuelan Independence movement as well in that theirs
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A shows that Napoleon in a different light‚ as a power hungry and power crazed man and the phrase “..absolute power corrupts absolutely..” applies very perfectly in this painting. His paintings have evolved from the purpose of propaganda for the revolution and promoting his image as a hard-working and patriotic man to promoting his power‚ wealth and less than subtle military process in this painting‚ and it also shows a rather discrete relation to the paintings that the Bourbon Kings may have commissioned
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the French revolution A revolution happens over time‚ people decide that they don’t like the way things are running and that a new system is to be established. The enlightenment brought ideas of separation of church from state‚ skepticism‚ and of course reason‚ people began to think logically and fought in order to gain equality. It could be argued that a revolution could not happen without the ideas that were brought upon by the enlightenment. Some enlightenment ideas influenced the French revolution
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