The French aided the Americans in their fight for freedom because of their intense hatred towards Great Britain. Helping America assisted in spring boarding the movement of revolutionary ideas in France. France was in significant debt, and in order to fix the problem, King Louis XVI called into session the Estates General. This general assembly consisted of mostly upper class men and some lower class. After reaching an impasse, the upper class locked out the lower class, so the lower class organized the National Assembly. The National Assembly put together their own rules for government called The Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. With revolution came a power-hungry leader named Robespierre. He led The Great Terror, which
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This revolution was led by Simon Bolivar overthrowing Spanish colonies in 1819. Bolivar admired American democracy, but he did not think it would work for Venezuela because they were unenlightened and too heavily affected by their current government. “Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.” Bolivar was afraid that the lack of knowledge could harm a new fragile government. Even though he did not want the same government as the United States, he held many of its core values as his own. The United States Bill of Rights was written so that Americans know the rights that they hold. Simon Bolivar’s story is a plea for his people to know their rights. They do not know their place in their country because they are not European and they are not native. He wanted them to know their concrete rights because he felt that they were being forced into a lower level of society by the government imposed upon them. Like the United States, Venezuela formed a two-house system. However, Bolivar held that those positions be elected through heredity, which was contrary to the United States Bill of Rights. In Bolivar’s case, if one is born into a position of high power, he or she has more rights than those who are …show more content…
Women in France had gotten a glimpse of hope during the time of their revolution. They helped fight in the Battle of Bastille and “some 7,000 Parisian women, desperate about the shortage of bread stormed the royal apartment, and forced the royal family to return with them to Paris.” Still, women had not gained favor in the eyes of men. So in France, where the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen was written, Marie de Gouges authored the Declaration of the Rights of Woman. The main point of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was that women are free and equal like men. Raden Kartini, a women living in the Dutch East Indies, could see changes occurring around her but did not see them in her own life because she was from a traditional Muslim family. “I long to be free, to be able to stand alone, to study, not to be subject to any one, and, above all, never, never to be obliged to marry.” The Declaration of the Rights of Woman says, “Marriage is the tomb of confidence and love.” Neither Kartini nor the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was saying a woman should not marry, but that if she does, it should be a shared union. A woman’s rights should be her own and not through her husband. Both de Gouges and Kartini urged for the education of women because with education comes equal opportunities. Kartini wrote, “We girls, so far as education goes,
This revolution was led by Simon Bolivar overthrowing Spanish colonies in 1819. Bolivar admired American democracy, but he did not think it would work for Venezuela because they were unenlightened and too heavily affected by their current government. “Slavery is the daughter of darkness: an ignorant people is a blind instrument of its own destruction.” Bolivar was afraid that the lack of knowledge could harm a new fragile government. Even though he did not want the same government as the United States, he held many of its core values as his own. The United States Bill of Rights was written so that Americans know the rights that they hold. Simon Bolivar’s story is a plea for his people to know their rights. They do not know their place in their country because they are not European and they are not native. He wanted them to know their concrete rights because he felt that they were being forced into a lower level of society by the government imposed upon them. Like the United States, Venezuela formed a two-house system. However, Bolivar held that those positions be elected through heredity, which was contrary to the United States Bill of Rights. In Bolivar’s case, if one is born into a position of high power, he or she has more rights than those who are …show more content…
Women in France had gotten a glimpse of hope during the time of their revolution. They helped fight in the Battle of Bastille and “some 7,000 Parisian women, desperate about the shortage of bread stormed the royal apartment, and forced the royal family to return with them to Paris.” Still, women had not gained favor in the eyes of men. So in France, where the Declaration of Rights of Man and Citizen was written, Marie de Gouges authored the Declaration of the Rights of Woman. The main point of the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was that women are free and equal like men. Raden Kartini, a women living in the Dutch East Indies, could see changes occurring around her but did not see them in her own life because she was from a traditional Muslim family. “I long to be free, to be able to stand alone, to study, not to be subject to any one, and, above all, never, never to be obliged to marry.” The Declaration of the Rights of Woman says, “Marriage is the tomb of confidence and love.” Neither Kartini nor the Declaration of the Rights of Woman was saying a woman should not marry, but that if she does, it should be a shared union. A woman’s rights should be her own and not through her husband. Both de Gouges and Kartini urged for the education of women because with education comes equal opportunities. Kartini wrote, “We girls, so far as education goes,