you completed each page before submitting. Part I: Fill in the Blanks Fill in the blanks to complete the following sentences. Revolutionary France a. Burdened by debt from the Seven Years’ War and French support for the American Revolution, King Louis XVI needed to raise taxes, so he agreed to convene the Estates General , which met in 1789 at Versailles. Led by the Third Estate —those outside the aristocracy or church—a new National…
Short Paper Essay Throughout the process of the American Revolution emerged some of the most brilliant minds that helped shape our country into what it is today. These people, the founding fathers, had many issues to solve as well as make sure both sides were satisfied with the outcome. In the Joseph Ellis’s book, “Founding Brothers: The Revolutionary Generation,” Ellis explains the dreadful foreign and domestic issues the early country faced as well as the negative relationship Thomas…
devout Catholic family know as the Guises. The Guises were in critical positions in the monarchy. Those positions were the French Army and the Church. The Guises family learned of a plot by a rival Protestant family to remove Francis II from power. Leading the Protestant family was the Bourbon Duke of Conde. He was sentenced to death, but his execution was halted by the death of Francis II. Charles IX was now the new ruler of France. However, since he was only ten years old, his mother Cathrine…
rotation of earth on its axis and its journey around the sun. Isaac Newton was a professor of mathematicians. His major work was Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy. Newton defined the three laws of motion that govern the planetary bodies continue their elliptical orbits about the sun. The laws state in mathematical…
Law, as extension of John Locke’s natural laws, was created in support of the equality of life, liberty, and property. However, any law that deducts unjustly from natural law becomes immoral and corrupt. The justice system as a result throughout history has been modified, amended, and rejected to reflect the societal constructs of moral code. Humanity’s complex and abstract struggle of ideology and the philosophy of what is right and wrong has become a trial of intention versus result. A black…
Women may not have a leading position during the 17th and 18th centuries, but they have always been an integral and permanent member of all the movements and settlements. During early 18th century, their main job was centered around farm and family. They worked in their homes under the general title of housewives and performed various activities such as sweeping, scrubbing, polishing the floor, cooking, dishwashing, laundering, etc. Also, they used to build their own brooms, soap and polishes…
Gardening activist and director Roger Doiron hosted a TEDxDirigo talk titled, “A Subversive Plot: How to Grow a Revolution in Your Own Backyard”, in which he encourages his audience to begin “subversive plot” gardening. Doiron starts by describing that gardening is a subversive activity because food is essentially a form of energy and power. When people grow and harvest their own food, they are taking control “over their diet…health, [and] pocket books”. As someone continues to pursue a…
established a whole new way of life. Then they didn’t agree with all the laws that were being put in place, such as the Sugar Act, Stamp Act, and other taxes. Through not paying and trying to repeal those taxes they were identifying an issue they faced and the only way they could have gotten out of that situation was through disobedience. America chose to go against what was being forced and rebelled starting the American revolution literally encompassing the very idea of disobedience. In other…
The American Revolution resulted from rising tensions between the mother country, Britain, and the restless thirteen colonies. Through the twentieth century, colonial historians debated the magnitude of the causes leading to the American Revolution, historian T. H. Breen challenges in his writing the preconceived notion that Britain was static and constant. He argues that the active role Britain plays actually sparked the revolution, inferring that the term “American Revolution” is actually a…
with our friends it would be blacks and whites in separate schools. Huey P. Newton was an African-American activist best known for founding the Black Panther Party with longtime friend Bobby Seale in 1966. The members of the…