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French Revolution, The
The French Revolution began the establishment of social and economic rights for all citizens, affording them voice and some control over their political destinies. The Napoleonic Era established...
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French Revolution, The
The French Revolution occurred in several stages, beginning in 1789 with the overthrow of the Ancien Régime and culminating in 1799 with a military coup led by Napoleon Bonaparte. There were...
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French Revolution, The
The French Revolution was caused by a number of factors, some of which served to exacerbate others. Some of these factors, like a dying class system, were common to most of the European...
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French Revolution, The
The National Assembly of France (1789-1791) was very important because it ended the system of feudalism in France and introduced the country to representative government. The establishment of a...
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French Revolution, The
The people expressed their resentment towards the oppressive absolute monarchs by supporting the revolution in their countries. America stood against King George while France rejected King Louis...
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French Revolution, The
The French Revolution had many positive effects. It eliminated the old class system under the Bourbon monarchy, one which gave preferential treatment under custom and law to clergy and to the...
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French Revolution, The
Before the French Revolution, society in France was divided into three estates, the clergy, the nobility, and the masses. The first two estates had a monopoly on political power and land ownership,...
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One way in which The Declaration of Independence and the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen are similar to one another is that they both actively seek to define consciousness. What it...
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French Revolution, The
In the early phase of the French Revolution, members of the Third Estate, the commoners who made up most of France's population, which was divided into a series of "estates" denoting one's place in...
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French Revolution, The
The decline of absolutism was an essential part of the French Revolution. The fall of the French monarchy was caused by a convergence of circumstances. Rising economic challenges, poor...
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French Revolution, The
The basic cause of the French Revolution was the fact that the common people of France were not given any sort of real voice in their own government. They were relatively oppressed and were very...
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French Revolution, The
The first phase of the French Revolution is often characterized as politically moderate. It was primarily aimed, many historians observe, at dismantling the anachronistic privileges enjoyed by the...
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French Revolution, The
The causes of the French Revolution were several and often interrelated. The French Revolution happened due to a series of events starting in the early 1700s. First, the French empire was fighting...
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French Revolution, The
While the French Revolution did not lead immediately to a true democracy in France, it did help to bring about more democracy in that country and in the world in general. The French Revolution did...
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French Revolution, The
One similarity between both revolutions is in how the will of the majority of the body politic was expressed extremely loud and extremely clear. There was an undeniable will of the people heard in...
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French Revolution, The
The cartoon in the link you have provided shows that the French Revolution was caused by anger among the Third Estate over their place in French society. The cartoon shows the Third Estate...
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French Revolution, The
The Reign of Terror resulted from several factors. The first was the seizure of the National Convention by the so-called "Mountain," the radicals who were backed by Parisian sans-culottes, and...
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French Revolution, The
One of the most intriguing aspects of the French Revolution is the role that absolutism played in its development and in its overall lesson. On one hand, the French Revolution was a direct...
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French Revolution, The
Obviously, the French Revolution went in directions that many of its liberal (in the 18th century sense) advocates did not envision. So its achievements always have to be weighed against the human...
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French Revolution, The
I don't really think that it did. Sure, the people got to have more of a say in government, but that's not all there is to democracy. The early revolutionary government abused people's rights...
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French Revolution, The
There is little doubt that the Bourbon monarchy was among the victims of the French Revolution. Louis XVI and his wife lost their heads, the king's son perished after a stay in prison, and the...
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French Revolution, The
The Directory suffered from extreme unpopularity among many French people. It fell as a result of a bloodless coup d'etat in 1799 that installed Napoleon Bonaparte, the most popular man in France...
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One problem with the Directory was that the Constitution of 1795 that established it severely limited the voting franchise and some civil liberties, making it unpopular with many ordinary...
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French Revolution, The
Specific Enlightenment ideals can be seen in the French Revolution's most basic call for change. The Enlightenment's conception of humanity was one in which there should be as little repression...
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French Revolution, The
I think that the argument could be made that the Revolutionary Government, of which the National Convention represented, was significantly weakened by the Reign of Terror. The immediate aftermath...
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Marie Antoinette was the queen of France at the time of the French Revolution. She was the wife of King Louis XVI. The two of them were the king and queen of France from 1774 to 1792. Marie...
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French Revolution, The
I think that one particularly interesting task on the French Revolution to assign to students would be to create Point of View Guides/ Diary Entries from the vantage point of different individuals...
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History
The ideas of the Enlightenment contributed to the Atlantic revolutions in at least two important ways. First, these ideas gave the revolutionaries a logic for challenging the regimes that ruled...
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French Revolution, The
I think that much of this answer is going to be dependent on the idea of what defines "radical." If we are examining the idea of "radical" as one that fundamentally changes the way revolution is...
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French Revolution, The
I think that this is going to be a challenging question because of the lack of consensus on the issue. The reason for this is because both answers are represented in the French Revolution. I...
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French Revolution, The
I think that any revolution could be seen as avoidable. In historical hindsight, one can always play the hypothetical game of "What if." This means that historians are always able to play around...
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There were already the beginnings of political parties in the US before the French Revolution, but the French Revolution sharpened the lines between them and helped make them truly distinct. The...
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The French Revolution impacted other countries in various ways. In Europe, the revolution led to a series of wars between various countries and the French. It also led to the rise of Napoleon and...
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French Revolution, The
The English political system is not generally mentioned as an inspiration for the French Revolution. However, if you must make this argument, you can point to the fact that the English system was...
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French Revolution, The
No, there is no justification for the extreme actions that were taken by the revolutionaries during the Reign of Terror. It is perfectly understandable that revolutionaries would worry greatly...
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French Revolution, The
I have seen at least two sources that have said that children were guillotined during the French Revolution. Thomas Carlyle wrote a history in the 1830s that was entitled The French Revolution: A...
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French Revolution, The
During the French Revolution, artists, musicians, and other cultural producers criticized the French monarchy as well as the religious institutions of France. Artists who were skeptical of...
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French Revolution, The
Events leading up to and including the French Revolution spanned more than two decades. The beginning of the Seven Years War in 1756 added to the mounting French debt; the American Revolution, and...
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French Revolution, The
I am not sure there is going to be much in the way of good about the Jacobins in the French Revolution. I think that one positive element could be how the group started. Its origins were rooted...
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French Revolution, The
In my mind, the most intense effect of the French Revolution was the ushering of despair and despondency behind grass roots movements and expressions of the political good. On the heels of the...
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French Revolution, The
On the positive side, one can easily argue that the removal of King Louis XVI was a step in the right direction, as he had bankrupted France, and his royal court lived with every luxury while...
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Did it fail? Could there have been a Napoleon if the revolution had never happened? Would France have a constitution without the revolution?
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The short answer, of course, is that the French population felt oppressed by their government and had generally felt so since the Middle Ages, combined with inspiration provided by the successful...
