What are the main features of French Revolution?
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Short:
The adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The first Constitution was also Written . A monarchy was established. Revolutionary France fights coalition of European powers. The Reign of Terror toke place.
Long:
The Napoleonic Code was written and the French public schools are established. Nationalism is spread though out the world, and there's a democratic republic. The French laws reflect the Napoleonic Code. They influenced of revolutions in other countries.
CAUSES
When people revolted against the French crown, not only did they succeeded in forming a new French republic, they spread the tendrils of revolution to other European monarchies. The reason they did this was because they hated the old way of things and wanted it to change. Another reason that the revolution started was an economic crisis in the monarchical government.John Locke thought that government should protect man's natural rights life, liberty, and property. Voltaire thought that everyone needed their own voice(freedom of speech), and that Church and State should be separate entities. Jean Jacques Rousseau thought that people were naturally peaceful and orderly, and that the government should have a social contract with the citizens. The extensive economic and social gaps between people of the Third Estate and the other Two EstateThe American revolution, which the French supported, and many French people admired and were inspired by.
CHARACTERISTICS
The French revolution inspired the Spanish and Portuguese colonial subjects to try to become independent, constitutional Latin American nations.Haiti was a French colony. The French Revolution had a great impact on Haitian revolution. The French revolutionary government supported the Haitian slave revolt leader. Haiti became independent in 1804.Most Latin American countries were were once colonies of Spain and Portugal. In 1807, Napoleon invaded Spain and Portugal. The invasion left Spain and Portugal without solidified ruling power. With weak influence from their Spanish and Portuguese overlords, the colonies were able to develop their own strong identities. Discontent with their lieges, many countries including Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico started revolutionary wars. Mexico gained independence in 1826.The right and responsibility of the citizens and noncitizen in civic participation throughout history were that every person was loyal to the person farther up the chain of command, loyalty was the cornerstone of civilization.Enlightenment thinkers spread anti-monarchical ideas to the people of the French nation and unrest was quickly increasing in the Third Estate as the First and Second Estates tried to dissolve it. This eventually lead to the Third Estate leaving the Estates-General on June 7, 1789 and creating a new legislative group, the French National Assembly. Everyone in the French National Assembly took oaths not to leave the Assembly, which was held at a tennis court, until France had a constitution. At the same time, conspiracies about aristocrats wanting to overthrow the Third Estate, leading to mayhem as commoners clashed with soldiers for three days. Similar uprisings in the French countryside were collectively called “the Great Fear” and helped to convince the FNA to create the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789. Revolutionary France then proceeded to go through many different governments, many of which were despotic and dictatorial. After the revolution and the Napoleonic wars.
CONSEQUENCES
Revolutionary France then proceeded to go through many different governments, many of which were despotic and dictatorial. After the revolution and the Napoleonic wars.Feudalism was destroyedAll privileged classes were abolished.Capitalism became the new economic system.Slavery was abolished in all French colonies.In 1792, all non-propertied classes (workers, peasants, artisans) were given equal political rights.Social equality and Socialism became popular ideas.
Short:
The adoption of the Declaration of the Rights of Man and Citizen. The first Constitution was also Written . A monarchy was established. Revolutionary France fights coalition of European powers. The Reign of Terror toke place.
Long:
The Napoleonic Code was written and the French public schools are established. Nationalism is spread though out the world, and there's a democratic republic. The French laws reflect the Napoleonic Code. They influenced of revolutions in other countries.
CAUSES
When people revolted against the French crown, not only did they succeeded in forming a new French republic, they spread the tendrils of revolution to other European monarchies. The reason they did this was because they hated the old way of things and wanted it to change. Another reason that the revolution started was an economic crisis in the monarchical government.John Locke thought that government should protect man's natural rights life, liberty, and property. Voltaire thought that everyone needed their own voice(freedom of speech), and that Church and State should be separate entities. Jean Jacques Rousseau thought that people were naturally peaceful and orderly, and that the government should have a social contract with the citizens. The extensive economic and social gaps between people of the Third Estate and the other Two EstateThe American revolution, which the French supported, and many French people admired and were inspired by.
CHARACTERISTICS
The French revolution inspired the Spanish and Portuguese colonial subjects to try to become independent, constitutional Latin American nations.Haiti was a French colony. The French Revolution had a great impact on Haitian revolution. The French revolutionary government supported the Haitian slave revolt leader. Haiti became independent in 1804.Most Latin American countries were were once colonies of Spain and Portugal. In 1807, Napoleon invaded Spain and Portugal. The invasion left Spain and Portugal without solidified ruling power. With weak influence from their Spanish and Portuguese overlords, the colonies were able to develop their own strong identities. Discontent with their lieges, many countries including Brazil, Venezuela, and Mexico started revolutionary wars. Mexico gained independence in 1826.The right and responsibility of the citizens and noncitizen in civic participation throughout history were that every person was loyal to the person farther up the chain of command, loyalty was the cornerstone of civilization.Enlightenment thinkers spread anti-monarchical ideas to the people of the French nation and unrest was quickly increasing in the Third Estate as the First and Second Estates tried to dissolve it. This eventually lead to the Third Estate leaving the Estates-General on June 7, 1789 and creating a new legislative group, the French National Assembly. Everyone in the French National Assembly took oaths not to leave the Assembly, which was held at a tennis court, until France had a constitution. At the same time, conspiracies about aristocrats wanting to overthrow the Third Estate, leading to mayhem as commoners clashed with soldiers for three days. Similar uprisings in the French countryside were collectively called “the Great Fear” and helped to convince the FNA to create the Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen in 1789. Revolutionary France then proceeded to go through many different governments, many of which were despotic and dictatorial. After the revolution and the Napoleonic wars.
CONSEQUENCES
Revolutionary France then proceeded to go through many different governments, many of which were despotic and dictatorial. After the revolution and the Napoleonic wars.Feudalism was destroyedAll privileged classes were abolished.Capitalism became the new economic system.Slavery was abolished in all French colonies.In 1792, all non-propertied classes (workers, peasants, artisans) were given equal political rights.Social equality and Socialism became popular ideas.
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