LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS (1800-1914) By: Kayla‚ Keith‚ and Jesus WHAT INSPIRED THE LATIN AMERICAN REVOLUTIONS? The American Revolution (1776) and the French Revolution (1789) inspired individuals in Latin American colonies to declare independence from Spain. WHY WOULD LATIN AMERICA WANT TO BREAK FREE? • Spain controlled trade and only used it to benefit Spain its self • Colonies were only allowed to trade with Spain and no one else • Under a complete control of Spain • Spain kept the money
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In the novel Revolution by Jennifer Donnelly‚ the protagonist of the story Andi Alpers goes to Paris with her father to finish her senior thesis. Andi is failing school and must finish her senior thesis to graduate. The place where she stays is at the house of one of her father’s close friends who is addressed as G. G is a historian who is fixated on the French Revolution and wishes to create a museum about the French Revolution‚ for this reason‚ he owns many artifacts from the era of the French
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Kuhn’s central proposition in The Structure of Scientific Revolutions is that science is not a body of knowledge that grows through “steady‚ cumulative acquisition of knowledge but a series of peaceful interludes punctuated by intellectually violent revolutions”. He described the period of crisis as the tradition-shattering complements to the tradition-bound activity of normal science.” The interlude of revolution replaces the one conceptual world view by another. Kuhn challenged the dominant view
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Causes of the French Revolution 1. International: struggle for hegemony and Empire outstrips the fiscal resources of the state 2. Political conflict: conflict between the Monarchy and the nobility over the “reform” of the tax system led to paralysis and bankruptcy. 3. The Enlightenment: impulse for reform intensifies political conflicts; reinforces traditional aristocratic constitutionalism‚ one variant of which was laid out in Montequieu’sSpirit of the Laws; introduces new notions of good government
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“A Revolution In Favor Of Government”‚ by Max M. Edling‚ presents the founding period of America. Besides‚ it focuses on the political and historical facts of the Constitution and the American state. According to Max Edling‚ the Federalists tried to build a central government‚ which was based on the fiscal-military of Europe. So‚ the federal system of government was built when the Constitution was designed by Federalists with fiscal-military power. They had to build a different state‚ because it
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What was the Military Revolution? Geoffrey Parker describes the military revolution as a period between 1500-1750 when changes in tactics‚ army size‚ and fortifications transformed the way wars were fought and how they were won1. Fortresses were very useful strongholds until cannons became more developed and knocked the fortresses down. Changes in the design of fortresses then made them more successful against bombardment. Firearms on the battlefield slowly became more present until it became the
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historians it is a surprise that America turned out the way it did. America was founded in a time of social unrest brought upon by the revolution and class conflict that was present before the war‚ and was multiplied ten-fold in the new formed country. This conflict during the construction of our Constitution and the subsequent Bill
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22.4: Burke’s protest of the revolution does not come from his estimates of its “extremist nature”‚ because he does not appreciate the extremities that are involved. He said that he was “incapable” of being in touch with those “who profess principles of extremities and who‚ under the name of religion‚ each little else than wild and dangerous politics.” That being said from what I have read about Burke‚ was that he was a religious man who believed that a man’s right was not an abstract principle‚
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Copernicus and the Heavenly Revolutions. Nicolaus Copernicus’s book “The Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies” was a book that challenged the way people think and made them rethink what they knew as fact. When Copernicus was born on February 19‚ 1473‚ there was only one view/model of the universe‚ which was Ptolemy’s model. His Geocentric Universal model‚ where the earth is the center of the universe and everything rotates around us‚ there was no question that this was fact. That was the case until
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Britain was at the forefront of industrial revolution during the 1800ś. With the social revolutions happening in France‚ and America just claiming its independence‚ it was the only country with the population and resources to do so. The 1st industrial revolution occurred under putting out system. Composed of overseers delivering cotton to cottage workers‚ the cottage workers would then make textile goods out of the cloth and give them back to the overseer for profit. With the invention of the Spinning
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