Timeline of three primary revolutions:
American Revolution:
1756-1763: The Seven Years’ War
1764: Sugar Act
1765: Stamp Act & Quartering Act
1767: Townshend Act
1773: Tea Act & Boston Tea Party
1774: Continental Congress
1776: Declaration of Independence
1783: Treaty of Paris
1787: Constitutional Convention
French Revolution:
1774-1793: Reign of King Louis XVI
1789: National Assembly
1789-1791: National Assembly reconfigured French society
1792: War against Austria & Prussia
1793-1794: Revolutionary Chaos
1795-1799: Directory
1799: End of French Revolution & Napoleon becomes leader of France
Russian Revolution:
1894: Czar Nicholas becomes ruler of Russia
1905: Revolutionary Outbreak
1914: World War I begins
1918 Russia back out of WWI & …show more content…
Women played big roles in the revolutions, but they did not have any political or social rights. Women did not gain rights to property, education and divorce, along with being rejected in the right to vote or hold public office. Women who participated in the movement to abolish slavery believed that women suffered the same disabilities as slaves. This included them to have little access to education, they were not able to enter professional occupations that required a higher education, and they were robbed of the right to vote. In the ability of having their own rights women had enlightenment ideas about liberty and equality. There were two women in this time period that played a big role in Enlightenment ideas. The first woman was an English writer by the name of Mary Astell. She used political thoughts to propose that sovereignty was nothing more appropriate in a family than in a state. The second woman was a British writer. She proposed thoughts similar to Astells, but more specifically on the rights for women and education. By the nineteenth century, social activists pressed for women rights, along with the elimination of slavery. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was an American feminist that was a women who was well known in the women’s right movement She was able help pass twelve resolutions in demanding that lawmakers should grant women the right to vote, attend public schools, enter professional careers, along with participating in public affairs. In addition to all the women I mentioned, earlier there were also some other amazing women of the revolutionary war. These amazing women were Mary Ball Washington, Martha Custis Washington, Lucy Flucker Knox, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Catherine Moore Barry, Sybil Ludington, Nancy Hart, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Margaret Cochran Corbin. These women had an impact and involvement in the revolutionary in
American Revolution:
1756-1763: The Seven Years’ War
1764: Sugar Act
1765: Stamp Act & Quartering Act
1767: Townshend Act
1773: Tea Act & Boston Tea Party
1774: Continental Congress
1776: Declaration of Independence
1783: Treaty of Paris
1787: Constitutional Convention
French Revolution:
1774-1793: Reign of King Louis XVI
1789: National Assembly
1789-1791: National Assembly reconfigured French society
1792: War against Austria & Prussia
1793-1794: Revolutionary Chaos
1795-1799: Directory
1799: End of French Revolution & Napoleon becomes leader of France
Russian Revolution:
1894: Czar Nicholas becomes ruler of Russia
1905: Revolutionary Outbreak
1914: World War I begins
1918 Russia back out of WWI & …show more content…
Women played big roles in the revolutions, but they did not have any political or social rights. Women did not gain rights to property, education and divorce, along with being rejected in the right to vote or hold public office. Women who participated in the movement to abolish slavery believed that women suffered the same disabilities as slaves. This included them to have little access to education, they were not able to enter professional occupations that required a higher education, and they were robbed of the right to vote. In the ability of having their own rights women had enlightenment ideas about liberty and equality. There were two women in this time period that played a big role in Enlightenment ideas. The first woman was an English writer by the name of Mary Astell. She used political thoughts to propose that sovereignty was nothing more appropriate in a family than in a state. The second woman was a British writer. She proposed thoughts similar to Astells, but more specifically on the rights for women and education. By the nineteenth century, social activists pressed for women rights, along with the elimination of slavery. Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was an American feminist that was a women who was well known in the women’s right movement She was able help pass twelve resolutions in demanding that lawmakers should grant women the right to vote, attend public schools, enter professional careers, along with participating in public affairs. In addition to all the women I mentioned, earlier there were also some other amazing women of the revolutionary war. These amazing women were Mary Ball Washington, Martha Custis Washington, Lucy Flucker Knox, Abigail Adams, Mercy Otis Warren, Catherine Moore Barry, Sybil Ludington, Nancy Hart, Esther DeBerdt Reed, and Margaret Cochran Corbin. These women had an impact and involvement in the revolutionary in