The French Revolution is often described as the Revolution of France and has been considered a social and economic development during the mid to late 1700’s. Historian J. Russell Major supports theories that the leadership, educational, and social changes instituted by King Louis XIV and Jean-Baptiste Colbert were the instigating events for French Revolutionaries. The monarchy created by Louis XIV began an unrecoverable pattern of debt, inflation and devastation of the working class. The implementation of his policies worsened the fractioning of the class structure, destroyed individualism and ultimately left the people of France with no ideological security as to what a government should resemble. There was a firm foundation of what type of leadership should fall; however there was no consensus of what
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My family has followed the “Ham” ancestry diligently over the last 4 centuries and the stories of my great grandfather have always been consistent with my analysis. John Ham left Liverpool on the private contract ship the Warwick prior to 1620 and passed on to his family the quest for a better way of life. The idea of hard work, compensation, representation and the ideology of personal and religious freedom are consistently present in the diaries of Mary Ham and several children and grand children through the 1700’s. My great-grand father’s and grand father’s message to me was that our revolution occurred the day people boarded a vessel away from the Empire and to the New World. France’s revolution began the day Louis XIV philosophy that “I am the master; one must expect favors only from me and I am the only and absolute receiver of royal patronage”. America and France both had moments of wars present during the revolution but the ideologies behind the revolutions were vastly
My family has followed the “Ham” ancestry diligently over the last 4 centuries and the stories of my great grandfather have always been consistent with my analysis. John Ham left Liverpool on the private contract ship the Warwick prior to 1620 and passed on to his family the quest for a better way of life. The idea of hard work, compensation, representation and the ideology of personal and religious freedom are consistently present in the diaries of Mary Ham and several children and grand children through the 1700’s. My great-grand father’s and grand father’s message to me was that our revolution occurred the day people boarded a vessel away from the Empire and to the New World. France’s revolution began the day Louis XIV philosophy that “I am the master; one must expect favors only from me and I am the only and absolute receiver of royal patronage”. America and France both had moments of wars present during the revolution but the ideologies behind the revolutions were vastly