The French Revolution © Student Handouts, Inc. www.studenthandouts.com The Old Regime (Ancien Regime) • Old Regime – socio-political system which existed in most of Europe during the 18th century • Countries were ruled by absolutism – the monarch had absolute control over the government • Classes of people – privileged and unprivileged – Unprivileged people – paid taxes and treated badly – Privileged people – did not pay taxes and treated well Society under the Old Regime • In France, people
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I don't believe in any form of unjustified extremism! But when a man is exercising extremism-a human being is exercising extremism in defense of liberty for human beings it's no vice, and one is moderate in the pursuit of justice for human beings I say he is a sinner – Malcolm X Extremism: The New Patriotism The recent rise of Islamic extremism on the international stage has alarmed many individuals around the world. Theories about the cause of its rapid and often time’s violent expansion have
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The American and French Revolutions: Compared and Contrasted The history of the human race always has been, and most likely will always be, that of evolution and revolution. – Lewis F. Korns, Thoughts A revolution occurs when one government is overthrown and replaced with another (Yahoo). The American and French revolutions can be both compared and contrasted in their origins and outcomes. Both revolutions began due to the common peoples’
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women were treated during the French Revolution and what were the results? Before the French Revolution began the amount of rights women had was questioned very little. No one questioned women being expected to only do things around the house until 1789 when women became vocal and demanded to have the same freedoms as men. After lower class men demanded for more rights with the Declaration of the Rights of Man, women were given confidence to make a stand for their own rights. Although it was sent by
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Some may rightfully believe that the French Revolution did more harm than good for society. However, I believe that the positive effects of this revolt far outweigh the negative effects. The French Revolution not only positively affected European society right after the revolt but, to this day, some effects remain in France, as well as many other societies in countries around the world. The French Revolution included changes such as setting a higher standard of living amongst
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Edmund Burke’s work, Reflections on the Revolution in France, 1791, was first published in November of 1790. Burke was an Irish member of the British Parliament who had supported the American Revolution because it was just. However, his feelings with regards to the French Revolution were very different. After hearing of a sermon given by the Protestant dissenter, Richard Price, on November 4, 1789, praising the French Revolution, Edmund Burke felt compelled to respond. By the time Burke began writing
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October 2015 The French Revolution has to do with liberty, equality, fraternity. The French Revolution had some important people in it, like John Locke, Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire. Locke believed in contract between government and governed. Montesquieu believed in the check and balances. Rousseau believed in individual freedom and civilization corrupts. Voltaire believed in freedom of thought and expression. In 1688 the glorious/bloodless Revolution in England removes James
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Atlantic Revolutions, 1600-1825 The revolutions of the eighteenth century have their origins in political and cultural developments of the seventeenth century. Of course, they were also products of all of major developments the European conquest of the Americas, the rise of kingdom states and empires, the tremendous wealth that resulted from the expansion of global trade, and the development of colonial cultures and societies in the Americas. Scholars call these cultures and societies creole societies
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THE CAUSES AND EFFECT OF THE HAITIAN REVOLUTION The Haitian Revolution represents the most thorough case study of revolutionary change anywhere in the history of the modern world. In ten years of sustained internal and international warfare, a colony populated predominantly by plantation slaves overthrew both its colonial status and its economic system and established a new political state of entirely free individuals—with some ex-slaves constituting the new political authority. As only the second
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been many revolutions, such as the French Revolution, that were caused by people rebelling against their governments. The French Revolution commenced after the Enlightenment became popular. The Enlightenment was a period in time where new ideas were spread and people started thinking differently about the world that they lived in. Enlightenment thinkers, like John Locke and Voltaire, begin inspiring the citizens of France to rebel against their government if they felt like their rights were being
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