influential. Without this type of cause it is very likely that the revolution in France ever would have happened. Even so there are three other important factors to the revolution‚ Political‚ Social‚ and Cultural. All four of these causes together are what really caused the French Revolution. Before the French Revolution France was in a major economic crisis. There was a royal debt; the French government kept spending more money than it was receiving by taxes. By 1786 the government realised the
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Imagine waking up one day and all of your life savings is gone: your money‚ your job‚ and soon your house. Occurrences like these happened to many people and families in the years following and during the stock market crash. People lost their jobs‚ businesses were forced to close‚ houses went up for sale‚ and all hope was lost. Furthermore‚ the crash of the stock market affected many different aspects of the world including citizens‚ the United States economy‚ and places outside the United States
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They were praying for a piece of bread. The Enlightenment was the time were logic‚ thinking on your own‚ reasons‚ what you want to believe‚ not only the Pope telling you what to believe in. Many philosophers started to write their ideas that influence The French Revolution. Now days you are born with natural rights‚ but during The French Revolution as soon as you were born they took all your
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REVOLUTIONARY MOVEMENT The reasons for the American Revolutionary Movement are diverse and numerous; however‚ one reason stands above them all: economics. Ever since the first settlers began to colonize the United States‚ economics have been present as the foundation for the country. Our society today is derived from money matters just as it was in the time before and during the Revolution. The British fighting the French and Indian War was a base for strong financial changes that led to the Revolution
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Did you know that the Revolutionary War is like a parent and child fighting? The Americans (the child) are fighting the British(the parent) and the British keep giving them punishments like more tax. By December‚ 1777 over 1800 soldiers had died and by March‚ over 900 more soldiers had died. That means a total of over 2700 soldiers died in all‚ that is quite a bit of soldiers dying! The colonists did not even have good clothes or shoes and became very sick. I have decided not to reenlist for
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financial giants: ...caused a global recession that cost tens of trillions of dollars‚ rendered over thirty million people unemployed worldwide‚ and doubled he national debt of the United States. (Ferguson 11:19) It doesn’t seem plausible that two companies’ failures would be significant enough to have such a drastic impact on the world economy. Furthermore‚ how did their collapses happen without anyone being aware of its impending demise? “This crisis was not an accident. It was caused by an out of
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Dominique Mazzulla 9-15-14 Period 1 How Revolutionary was the American Revolution DBQ The American Revolution had been revolutionary. More political changes were made rather than social and economic changes. For example after the American Revolution women gained the same rights as men including the right to vote. The American Revolution was not a great social revolution. A true social revolution destroys the institutional foundations of the old order and transfers power from ruling
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What caused the Salem witch hunts? | Michael Kimbrough October 3‚ 2012 | The Salem witch trials happen in colonial Massachusetts between 1692 and 1693. More than 200 people were accused of practicing witchcraft. Some of the colony eventually admitted that the trials were a mistake and compensated the families of those convicted. Since then‚ the story of the trials has become famous with paranoia and injustice‚ and it continues to be in peoples imagination more than 300 years later. | |
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In history‚ the territorial expansion of the United States is full of wars‚ bought and sold regions. When France lost the French and Indian War in 1763‚ it gave most of its possessions in North America to Britain. This extended British domain beyond the original thirteen colonies. Since Spain was an ally‚ it had to give east and west to Britain ; in exchange it was compensated by France with territory west of the Mississippi. Although The United States declared its independence in 1776 and formed
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Following the Revolutionary War‚ the American colonies were faced with uncertainty in their newfound independence. Now free from British rule‚ the people of colonial America wanted to avoid any form of government for fear that it would revert them back to the past. This left the founding fathers with an extremely difficult task. How do you govern a person who wants to govern themselves? Government is necessary‚ after all‚ for the war had left the colonies in extreme debt‚ requiring taxation that
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