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…of revolution occurred in France, Jefferson appropriately thought America should help the French. The Hamiltonians generally supported England even though France was America’s ally by the treaty of alliance signed during the American Revolution. Jefferson had much…

…“The French Revolution” In 1787, France was on the verge of bankruptcy and suffered because the lack of unity between the three estates under the Acien Regime. The first of these estates or classes consisted of clergy. They managed church affairs…

…Spanish Royal Court. The need for funds leads the Bourbons to accelerate the sale of influential positions to Creoles. Between the French Revolution and the American Revolution and the influx of Enlightenment Ideas from Europe the inevitable was meant…

…, was horrified by the excesses of the French Revolution and enraged by the tactics of Edmond Genet, the French minister in the United States, which amounted to foreign interference in American politics. Further, with an eye toward developing closer commercial ties…

…of publishing. Also, was the rise of a new public and secular culture. And not least, the impact of Scientific Revolution, particularly the excitement generated by Newton’s Principia (1687). Newton’s work seemed to prove that order and mathematically demonstrable…

…their funds and other problems were of natural causes and could not have been prevented like the poor harvests of 1787 and 1788. In my opinion I think that the French Revolution was an inevitable occurrence as the government in France was too lose and not well…

…wrote The Social Contract, a political dissertation which argued for civil liberty on all levels, criticized divine right, and eventually asserted itself as the fundamental text for the French Revolution. It is clear that Rousseau believed in civil liberty…

…, the principles of nationalism were ignored in favor of preserving the peace. Germany and Italy were left divided states, but strong nationalist movements and revolutions led to the unification of Italy in 1861 and that of Germany in 1871. Another result of the France…

…during the French revolution, The Oath of the Horatii was a political call to order. It was commissioned by Louis XVI to improve public morality. This painting shows three Horatii brothers pledging to sacrifice their own lives for a cause. Leaving behind…

…pessimistic, but during the British, French, and American industrial revolutions, the working class was subjected to some of the cruelest working conditions the world has ever seen. Those types of conditions are still present in third world countries that are just…