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…The French Revolution Section 1:The Old Order - At the time when the Americans were gaining independence from Great Britain, the French monarchy was at it's height. - All French people belonged to one of three estates, or orders of society…

…created a document very much similar to the American Constitution, "The Declaration of the Rights of Man". These seventeen articles defined how each member of the nation of France would become a free man. By giving the French citizens certain inalienable rights…

…,‘The Revolution is over.’” (McKay, p. 752) In his statement, Robespiere is both right and wrong. He was correct in that the first phase of the French Revolution with the old intentions of liberty, equality, and representative government had ideally accomplished it’s…

…Nature of the Industrial Revolution There has been much objection to the term because the word revolution suggests sudden, violent, unparalleled change, whereas the transformation was, to a great extent, gradual. Some historians argue that the 13th…

…a common enemy. By the eve of the Revolution, the colonies knew what they were doing, and had defined their identity as no longer British or Englishmen but as Americans. Even by 1750, the colonists were already a distinct breed of people. Most were…

…Thomas Paine’s Rights of Man opposes the ridiculous conservative standpoint that Edmund Burke took towards the French Revolution. Paine supported natural rights, and understood that democratic institutions must be implemented in order to guarantee those…

…Since the historical conflict between Great Britain and her North American colonies began to unfold, historians have searched for the reasoning behind it. Many experts have discussed the various reasons for the conflict. Some experts believe…

…"Bastille Day, on the Fourteenth of July, is the French symbol of the end of the Monarchy and the beginning of the French Revolution" (www.hightowertrail.com). It is very much like Independence Day in the United States because it is a celebration…

…The Scientific Revolution and the Enlightment showed Europe and the Americas a completely new way of looking at the world around them, which caused people to change their views about the universe. They entered the Enlightment, in which philosophers…

…France is a country that has been shaped by revolution. The 1848 revolution is very unique in that it was probably the least bloody of all the revolutions in French history. Like most, if not all, the regimes before it the July Monarchy was toppled…