The first of many reasons why the French Revolution began had to do with the many ideas that came about from the Enlightenment and those that believed in these thought processes. For example, the colonists in the successful American Revolution believed in the Enlightenment idea that all men are created equal and have inherent rights. Middle class citizens communicated their feelings towards the First and Second Estates, but ended up not having their feeling taken into account because the Second Estate got angry with King Louis and he then went back on what he had promised. This initiated the middle class to become “sensitive to their inferior legal position” (Doc. 4). Instead of requiring the First and Second Estates to pay more taxes…
New France was the area colonized by Britain in 1534 when French explorers led by Jacques Cartier was exploring for a new route to India. Since that point in time, New France rapidly expanded into this newly found land creating colonies from the North which included Acadia, Quebec, and Louisbourg to name a few, stretching down south towards Louisiana. Moving into the late 17th century and early 18th century, Settlements began to grow and prosper which caused conflict between settlers and the business of fur trading. This lead to the Seven Years’ War from 1756-1763, which can be considered the linchpin to the fall of New France. The Seven Years’ War in 1756 was a major catalyst for wars that preceded and eventually led to the fall of New France, stemming from poor leadership and lack of support from New France.…
In the late 1780's to early 1790's, Europe was in turmoil. The French king, Louis XVI had been deposed and executed by the radical French Republicans. While France dealt with the chaos that was it's government, the rest of Europe was afraid its citizens would rise in revolt as well. To bring order to France, an English fleet moved toward the crucial port of Toulon in the south. Among the threats of invasion by Austria, Russia, Prussia and Spain, France also had to deal with the popular revolt of French loyal to Louis' family in the Vendee region where citizens had beaten back forces of the French Republic.…
One of the primary causes of the French revolution was the Third Estate’s poor treatment by the King of France, the First Estate, and the Second Estate. For example, in the political cartoon titled, “The People Under the Old Regime,” three fat people are riding on the back of a skinny person (Doc A). The three fat people represent the King of France, the First Estate, and the Second Estate while the skinny person represents the Third Estate. The image demonstrates how unfair the social system of France before the French Revolution was because it shows the Third Estate as a starving, chained, and blindfolded man carrying the overweight and well-dressed upper classes of France. Moreover, In the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen, a document the National Assembly submitted to King Louis XVI, one of the changes that…
The French army, “landing in June 1830,” easily overpowered the forces of the “dey.” But this success brought France only a small region round Algiers. The city of Constantine holds out “against the French for seven years.” In the meantime the invading force was also under threat from the strong amir of Mascara, Abd-el-Kader. “In 1839 Abd-el-Kader proclaimed a jihad, or holy war,” against the Christian intruders.…
The impact of the Revolution of 1830 in France extended even beyond French territory, nearly precipitating a similar revolution in England. The most instantaneous effect experienced in England was an insurrection of the English working class, provoking violent and radical sentiment and thus reflecting the origins of the French Revolution. However, where the French government failed to meet its citizens’ demands, the English succeeded, initiating a series of reforms led by the “Liberal Tories” to reduce taxes, loosen restrictions on old Navigation Acts, and allow colonies to trade with countries beyond Britain. They also successfully implemented a more secularized state, a goal in which the French revolutionary government had met in a spectacularly…
English thinker, John Locke, perfectly stated, “(W)e must consider, what state all men are naturally in…a state of perfect freedom to order their actions” (Document A). During the 1600s and 1700s, revolutionary thinkers and writers defended the “perfect freedom[s]” of individual citizens to express their self-determination and freewill to choose. This tumultuous period of history was fraught with conflict. The English Civil War and the Glorious Revolution brought an end to England’s absolute monarchy in the 1680s, and the French Revolution from 1789 to 1799 drastically changed the political and societal makeup of France. These conflicts spurred thinkers such as Locke, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Mary Wollstonecraft to promote the personal freedoms…
The French Revolution was divided into three social classes the clergy (first estate), the nobles (second estate) and the peasants (third estate). The upper class (the clergy and the nobles) raised the tax prices on the third estate but they didn’t have to pay taxes. They also raised the price of bread which made most of the peasants starve and they would fight over the loaves of bread. But later the third estate creates something known as the National Assembly and they created the Declaration of the Rights of Man which changed many things. There were many things that caused the French Revolution but the main reasons are the inequalities between the social classes, The Enlightenment, and the American example.…
The French Revolution was a very chaotic time. The third class was very angry they weren't being treated equally. They wanted to be like the first and second class. They decided to rebel and this caused the French Revolution. They rebelled and attacked many places like the Bastille and the Palace of Versailles.…
During the time of the Enlightenment, many people started to question their daily lives. While the French monarchs and churches were taking total control of the people and their government, philosopher such as John Locke, Voltaire, Adam Smith, and Mary Wallstonecraft started to not only question but applied logic and reason to life as they knew it, but also had similar thoughts of equality for all. Little did any of them know that their ideas would pave the way for many concepts that we still use to this day. We start out in the year of 1690, which was eighty-six years before America's declaration of independence was first written. John Locke, who is widely known for his book "Two Treatises of Government", which contained many controversial theories that are similar to what we know today.…
Men and Women During the French Revolution The impact of the French Revolution was felt not only in France and but in all parts of Europe. As the french people fought for equality and a new form of government, this period of social and political disorder also saw a new era of enlightenment, nationalism, and new rights for people. The revolution hoped to achieve a democratic government that would have internal and political changes, moral changes, and new appeals for nationalism within the french nation. During those years men were being influenced by new ideas, but as time went on, women were also being influenced by enlightenment ideas that were perpetrating against the monarchy and class division.…
The American Revolution was started by many different factors. One of the beginning factors was the changes in the society in America. The colonists in America were beginning to do things very differently than in Britain. “Society in the New World was already more Republican, more shallow, and more fragile.…
The citizens were not pleased with this idea since they were not aware of it. Therefore, they began to boycott the goods. The Boston Tea Party, The Intolerable Acts, and Continental Congress were all causes of the American Revolution. These series of events led to a constitution that was revolutionary to a…
Each of the three revolutions ended with a difference being made in the government and in the way it governed its people. Although the three revolutions were very different from each other in the sense of physically how they were carried out, they all had one common goal; to be less oppressed and to have more liberty and freedom. Also, much of thee revolutions are connected and may have affected the other revolutions. Chronologically, the first revolution to occur was the Glorious Revolution.…
The French Revolution led to the French monarchy being destroyed, the rise of Napoleon Bonaparte, armed conflicts with other European countries, and influence on other countries as well as other impacts across the globe. The French Revolution occurred under King Louis XVI, who was eventually executed. French society was dealing with high taxes and bad harvests which led them to dislike the government. They disliked the government because they were jealous of the privileges enjoyed by the…