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This junior level paper is on "How did the American Revolution contribute to the outbreak of the French revolution?" It includes that what independent factors propelled the French to the revolution? Sources.

Tags:AMERICAN STUDIES AND HISTORY / AMERICAN REVOLUTION, american french revolution

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This paper gives a general history of the American and French Revolutions. The author compares and contrasts these two significant pieces of history. A discussion of the causes for both revolutions and how the enlightenment played a major role in both of them. In addition the author gives the course of events that made these revolutions occur and their consequences.

From the Paper
"All men are born free, but everywhere they are in chains. This and other statements from the enlightenment played major roles in the American and French Revolutions. The American Colonists felt that Britain was not giving them fair representation in parliament and that they were being deprived of their basic human rights. The people of France were starving and being treated harshly by their government. Both the French and the Americans rose up against authority and gained their freedom. When the fighting was over both countries formed a republican form of government and had a major effect on many different countries around the world."

Tags:america, britain, enlightenment, europe, france

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This paper explains the similarities and differences between the Declaration of Independence and the French Declaration of the Rights of Man, showing the emphasis in that document for liberty, equality and fraternity. It looks at the different purposes of the American and the French revolutions.

From the Paper
"The French Revolution was basically to end political injustice from within while the American Revolution focused on obtaining freedom from the original mother country ..."

Tags:Declaration of Independence, Declaration of the Rights of Man, The Third Estate, loyalists, Washington, Jefferson, Robespierre

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This paper discusses the events leading to the French revolution and the end of the absolute monarchy. It presents the reasons for the financial crisis, including France's participation in the American Revolution as well as severe storms that ruined crops and diminished food supplies. The role of the Third Estate in the revolution is also discussed.

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"In 1789, not long after America's revolution, the people of France entered a period of radical social and political change known as the French Revolution. France, a country long run by absolute monarchy, a monarchial form of government in which the monarch exercises unlimited governing authority, was experiencing several hardships which led to the outbreak of war. The events leading to the revolution and the eventual beheading of King Louis XVI included: financial crisis, Estates-General of 1789, and National Assembly of 1789. The victory of the French people resulted in many social and political reforms for the country of France, which were made possible by several important events."

Tags:war, King Louis XVI, monarchy Bastille

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The paper looks at a number of factors that contributed to the French Revolution including the role of the bourgeoisie, the extent to which tensions between and within the First, Second and Third Estates stimulated the revolutionary fervor amongst the peasants and the middle class, and the ideological role of the Enlightenment. The paper also looks at the view of Steven Kreis that the Enlightenment and the American example merely fueled bourgeoisie discontent. Thus, the paper concludes that although all the theories have an element of truth, the idea that the revolution was fueled by bourgeoisie discontent seems the most persuasive.

From the Paper
"Steven Kreis subscribes to the theory that the newly empowered French bourgeoisie had developed a collective sense of its great significance and power in the new French 18th century economy. Many members of the bourgeoisie, such as the powerful merchants, manufacturers, bankers, doctors, lawyers, intellectuals produced by the rapidly expanding industrial sector, had acquired tremendous amounts of money. This social segment owned 20% of all the land, but they could not use their wealth to gain status or privilege. Unlike the aristocracy and clergy they had to pay taxes on what they had earned through toil, not through birth. Thus the bourgeoisie were angry at the current social segmentation of France, and wanted members of the French Roman Catholic Church, army and government positions opened up to members of the Third Estate. They believed that such positions should be allocated upon merit, not upon past aristocratic parentage."

Tags:bourgeoisie, peasants, clergy, nobility, aristocracy, Enlightenment

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This paper examines the political and social concepts that Rousseau wrote about in his famous work, "Discourse on the Origin of Inequality Among Men ". The paper looks at how Rousseau's writings may have helped bring about the French Revolution, the American Revolution, and even the modern feminist movement. The paper also discusses how much of Rousseau's writings continue to have relevance and influence on society today and draws comparisons between John Locke's writings and Rousseau's writings.

From the Paper
"It is ironic that the writings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau can be considered feminist in nature; Marie Antoinette was tried for treason and guillotined four years after the French Revolution erupted, becoming perhaps the most famous woman of the "old order" in history. She had been guilty of the excesses of the French Court at the time of the French Revolution, even though historians note that she had tried, in the final years of her husband's reign, to mend her extravagant ways and appear more often as a doting mother, simply dressed and coiffed."

Tags:private, property, inequality, social, problems, rights, ownership, feudal, versailles, king

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This paper examines how, since the beginning of the 19th century, the legacy of the French Revolution has been ardently debated by politicians, revolutionaries, and political theorists. It looks at how the Revolution of 1789 was the origin of what soon became known as nationalism, liberalism, socialism, and eventually, communism. In particular, it explores its long-term effect on the American political system, Middle Eastern politics, and international terrorism.

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"Collectively, the Revolution was also significant. Without a doubt, society in France and to a lesser level in other parts of Europe would never be the same. Once the prehistoric constitution of privilege was shattered, it could not be pieced together again. The Revolution did not essentially modify the distribution of wealth, but that had not been the intent of most of the revolutionaries. Insofar as legal equality gradually became the norm in France and Europe, the revolutionaries succeeded. The cultural impact is harder to assess. The Revolution did not succeed in establishing the national school system it envisioned, but it did found some of France's elite educational institutions that have produced some of that nation's greatest leaders. Its attack on the church had profound repercussions, making the status of the church a central political issue, which even today divides France politically and culturally."

Tags:liberalism, terrorism, socialism, enlightenment

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This paper takes a look at the French and Russian revolutions, highlighting the similarities and differences. According to the paper, the French revolution was very much influenced by the earlier American revolution. The paper further discusses how the Russian revolution was influenced by the rest of the world in a philosophical manner.

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"The French Revolution had been brewing for some time. The wealth of the monarchy compared to the relative poverty of the lower classes had caused a dissatisfaction that was growing exponentially. When Louis XVI took over the throne in 1774, he inherited some powerful problems such as "a peasantry bitter in its grievances; a bourgeoisie restive under its many restrictions; privileged class and corporate interests at odds with each other but united in their parasitism upon the nation; a government discredited by its ruinous foreign policy, its financial extravagances, and its administrative inefficiency and corruption; and a powerful public opinion that scourged the government for its weakness and its errors of policy and assailed the very theory of absolutist government" (Gershoy 3). The peasants had suffered under the yoke of a feudal system for years that gave the ruling classes control over their land and their lives. Because France was such an agrarian society, the condition of the peasantry involved in agriculture is a vital part of the discontent that led up to the revolution. "

Tags:communist, working, class, Napoleon, Stalin, Lenin, Bolshevik, textile, church, social

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The paper follows the events leading up to and during the course of the French Revolution, the American Civil War and Hitler's Nazi Party's rise to power. The paper shows how, in all three cases, the events were inevitable and at times, like in the case of Hitler's "Mein Kampf", even predicted long before they actually happened.

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"The events preceding the French Revolution, the American Civil War, and the Nazis rise to power were prophetic. As stated earlier, the Founding Fathers who wrote the U.S. Constitution knew that the issue of slavery would become a problem in future generations, yet the wording within the Constitution wasn t replaced at the time. King Louis XVI, an ineffective leader consumed by his own luxurious lifestyle, learned too late that the people of his country had the right to equality, to work, and to something as simple as bread. Adolf Hitler detailed his political and military strategies in his book, Mein Kampf, written in the early 1920s while serving time in prison. His book was considered the Bible of the Nazis, yet nothing was done to stop the genocide of the Jewish people."

Tags:King, Louis, XVI, Marie, Antoinette, Estates, General, National, Assembly, Constitutional, Convention, slavery, Lincoln, Nuremberg, Laws, Anti-Semitism

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This paper aims to demonstrate that in the immediacy with which the French Revolution succeeded the American Revolution, the commonality of their respective aspirations toward constitutionality and their struggles to define a balance between democratic governance and a centralization of authority descendent from monarchical principles, France would represent a first and most crucial lynchpin in directing the external resistance to feudalism of America's revolution to the internal needs in a drastically unequal Europe. The paper asserts that America's actionable revolution demonstrated that the forces of monarchy could be dismantled, that a balance of democracy could be achieved and that the ideals of the rights of man were something more than mere rhetoric.
The paper concludes that historians must generally speak of this time as the nexus point where the American and French Revolution segued into the Napoleonic wars across the transition into the 19th century as foretelling the industrial revolution and the popular spread of capitalism.

From the Paper
"Drafted in the image of the American Declaration of Independence, though perhaps more ambitious and sweeping even in its trajectories, the Declaration of the Rights of Men would dictate a universal principle arguing that all men are born equal and that any distinctions made between men according to the social conditions must be terms agreed upon by all parties. The constitutional document underscoring the spread of liberal ideology throughout Europe, it would be taken up by Bonaparte in an active dispensation of the philosophy in a context where such was sorely needed as a foundation upon which to build rapid change."

Tags:colonial, Europe, France, Napolean, British