Mullaney in “The French Revolution” n.p. claims accounted for about 98% of the country’s population) and the 2nd as well as the 1st estate built up of the middle and higher wage workers/families. Estates were rigid social classes that divided the country as stated before into lower‚ middle‚ and higher income families. The American revolution just taking place sparked an idea throughout the third estate and inspired daring and new minds like Jean-Pierre Brissot. The American revolution sort let them
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interest and repayments that the treasury had to dispurse. Indeed since 1777‚ Calonne claimed that ariubd 1‚250 million livres had been borrowed. A lot of this borrowing was due to financing the various wars that French kings of the eighteenth century were prone to fighting. The last one‚ French involvement in the American Civil War between 1778-83‚ had a crippling effect on the economy and was substantial in rendering it down to the situation that Calonne had announced to
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history there have been many important revolutions that have help to shape society as it is today. There are different causes‚ from political to religious‚ economic to social. Any revolution affects those in society‚ and creates changes for the people in the society. There are three important revolutions that took place in the late 18th century that changed the world for the better. The French Revolution‚ the American Revolution‚ and the Industrial Revolution all took place in the late 1700s. Although
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Count: 1511 How important was the role of ideas in the outbreak of revolution? When comparing the French Revolution of 1789 and Russian October Revolution of 1917‚ a series of parallels become evident. Both revolutionary groups became determined with an extensive emergence of new ideas‚ which captured a strong majority of the respective populations. The importance of the ideas was critical to maintaining a drive for the revolutions considering they acted as a manifestation of what the public and the
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Discuss the significance of the French Revolution and the ensuing Napoleonic State on the formation of nation states in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. The French revolution was an event of epic proportions. At the outset‚ alike the English Civil Wars‚ an autocratic monarch (Louis XVI) summoned Parliament‚ in France Estates General‚ in order to demand funds and prerogatives. The outcome became very similar to the English Civil Wars; the Third Estate rebelled (in England it was Parliament
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The Haitian Revolution lasted from 1791 to 1804. Before the revolution‚ blacks and mulattoes wanted equality‚ and also independence from France. Slaves worked from before dawn till after dark. They were underfed‚ undernourished‚ and overworked by their owners. Owners used violence and terror to force slaves to work. They would burn them in ovens‚ pour boiling cane sugar on them‚ and put salt‚ pepper‚ or lemon on whip wounds. Slaves resisted slavery through infanticide‚ suicide‚ and plotting to kill
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The French Revolution was one of the most important events that occurred in the history of France. The revolution crumpled the Old Regime and completely transformed the social and political system of France. The people of France sought to establish a more egalitarian society through their newly created Republic. When Enlightenment thinkers such as John Locke‚ Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu introduced individual liberty‚ natural rights and equality the ideas of revolution emerged
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With the American and French Revolutions set the tone for the last half of the 1800’s‚ it was a time of massive amounts of change and upheaval. American and French revolutionaries fought patriotically‚ not as loyalists to the crown‚ but rather for the augmentation of unalienable rights of fellow citizens‚ furthering the fight for democracy. The experiences of absolute monarchies burdened the American and French‚ yet was a driving factor behind the desire to limit the power the government has over
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Introduction: Human rights are freedoms established by custom or international agreement that impose standards of conduct on all nations. Human rights are distinct from civil liberties‚ which are freedoms established by the law of a particular state and applied by that state in its own jurisdiction. Human rights are moral principles that set out certain standards of human behavior‚ and are regularly protected as legal rights in national and international law. They are "commonly understood as
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into a revolution. The citizens of France rebelled against the absolute monarch and the system they deemed unfair. The people were starving while Queen Marie Antoinette spent fortunes on fake boats to put in her hair. The Revolution was centered on hatred for the king‚ Louis XVII‚ and the prospects of a governmental system that promoted liberty and equality. The unfair representation of the third estate‚ the spread of enlightenment ideas‚ and the high price and scarcity of bread caused the French Revolution
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