was 10. At the age of 14‚ he received training in the diplomatic divisions and went to school . Adams traveled with the lawyer‚ Francis Dana‚ to Russia‚ working as his secretary and translator. He went to school in Europe and became really fluent in French‚ Dutch‚ and German. Then he returned home and joined Harvard College in 1785 and graduated two years later. He later became a lawyer in Boston in 1790. George Washington’s noninterference policy of 1793 when there are conflicts between Britain and
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the French Revolution are vast and vary greatly in what they concern. What could be seen as the flame that ignited the French Revolution’s fire is France’s ever-growing population – when King Louis XVI took power in 1770 he commanded rule over twenty percent of Europe’s then non-Russian population‚ some thirty million people. This massive population combined with inefficient farming techniques served to create food shortages‚ particularly in the grain utilized to make bread‚ a staple in French diet
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Liang Zhou French Revolution started in 1789 with the accumulated resentment French people had towards the King‚ Louis XVI. The resentment was accumulated from many aspects‚ such as unfair treatment‚ the king’s incompetence and poverty. Social‚ political and geographic factors is definitely the causes of French revolution. The General Estate was one of the most inhuman systems which planned the seed of revolution. The General Estate was the system used before French Revolution to divide the
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Was the French Revolution caused by one major influence or by various reasons. Yes i think it was but first what was the french revolution: The French Revolution was a revolutionary movement that shook France between 1787 and 1799 and reached its first peak there in 1789. Hence the conventional term “Revolution of 1789‚” denoting the end of the ancient regime in France and serving also to characterise that event from the later French revolutions of 1830 and 1848. Though many people believe
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The Order of the Day: Terror in the French Revolution By 1792‚ the many of the issues that had led to the French Revolution in the first place continued to be unsolved. The French economy was still in steady decline‚ The newly introduced paper currency called the assagnat‚ had depreciated. And that along with bad harvests‚ and the rise of the price of sugar due to a slave revolt in Haiti‚ left food prices very high. War with major European countries seemed imminent. Austria‚ Prussia‚ and England
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manifestations of the French Revolution was the adoption of a completely new calendar; ’The Calendar of Reason’. It was divided into twelve months of thirty days each which symbolized their separation from the old style. One of the reasons for the calendar consisted on the rejection of numerous holidays‚ religious and politic oppressiveness and some reactions included people honoring to the new adoption while other arguing over the cruelty they were brought upon. French needed to break away from
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escaping to freedom via the Underground Railroad. I truly believe that if slave songs did not exist‚ slavery would have continued for a much longer period of time because no one would have gained the courage to stand up and fight against the racist slave owners. I also think that slave songs give us as listeners today a clearer understanding of what life was like during this era of America’s history and just how powerful music can be. Slaves songs prove that music is capable of bringing people together
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to evolve and ships were a new and evolved way or transporting goods and people. Although‚ this new way of transportation was great for Europe‚ it was horrible for spreading the disease. The prevalence of the Black Death is known to have changed society in European countries. The increasing number of deaths and spread of the disease began to have a huge impact on Europe politically‚ socially‚ religiously‚ and economically. The Black Death originated in China and was spread by the Silk Road or by
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A revolution‚ in definition‚ is the overthrow of one government with replacement of another. The American and French Revolutions were both successful revolutions that happened in different ways. The French revolution took place because the French saw that the Americans were successful in overthrowing the British rule over them. No taxation without representation was a major cause of both revolutions‚ the Americans were being taxed by Great Britain and the king taxed the French heavily. The American
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The 1789 document the Rights of Man and Citizen was written by the National Assembly of France‚ which consisted of mostly wealthy bourgeoisies of the third estate. The remaining members of the third estate‚ the peasants and sans-culottes‚ therefore did not have much say in what was being addressed to the public. Enlightenment ideas such as popular sovereignty and civic equality‚ advocated by all three groups of the estate‚ is apparent in the statement. Although this was a step in the right direction
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