Revolutions Ideas change the world Connection to Today

Revolutions Ideas change the world

Connection to Today • Who should determine the capability of someone to lead a country’s gov’t? • When is it necessary to fight against the government? Is it ever right? • What causes people to be willing to give up their lives in a fight against a government?

Causes 1. Absolutism • Monarchs believed in Divine Right and their right to absolute power • God created the Monarchy and chose them as the rightful leader – it’s their GOD given RIGHT to be the MONARCH • Often – this transferred via bloodline

Causes 2. Enlightenment • The ideas from the Enlightenment stirred up desire for change • Common people became tired of not having a voice/representation • Spiritual dominance over everyday practical life experiences fades to logic/reason

4 revolutions • Britain – IDEAS • America • France • South America

England • Less absolute monarchy by 1600 than other countries (Magna Carta) – but still strong • Have a Parliament, but king calls the shots

England • BIG SHIFT(1688) - William and Mary visit… - King’s power goes to Parliament! - Bill of Rights - Habeas Corpus - Parties emerge (Whigs/Tories)

France Revolution • Three Estates -First Estate: Clergy -Second Estate: Nobility -Third Estate: everyone else 99% of population

France Revolution • Louis XVI - Kings bankrupt - Taxes unfair

France • So it begins… 1789 National Assembly formed when Estates General would not give 3 rd Estate more vote, Tennis Court oath

France

France • So it begins… 1789 National Assembly formed when Estates General would not give 3 rd Estate more vote, Tennis Court oath 1789 Jul Storming Bastille, peasant riot, Estates joined

France

France • So it begins… 1789 - National Assembly formed when Estates General would not give 3 rd Estate more vote, Tennis Court oath 1789 Jul – Storming Bastille, peasant riot, Estates joined 1789 Aug– Declaration of Rights 1791 – King tries to cross border (other monarchs worried) 1792 – War declared on Austria and Prussia, National Constitutional Convention ruled 1793 – tried and executed the king, called to liberate world from tyrants, armies spread, war w/almost all Europe, extremists come to power, committee of public safety, executed 2500 year

France

France • So it begins… 1789 - National Assembly formed when Estates General would not give 3 rd Estate more vote, Tennis Court oath 1789 Jul – Storming Bastille, peasant riot, Estates joined 1789 Aug– Declaration of Rights 1791 – King tries to cross border (other monarchs worried) 1792 – War declared on Austria and Prussia, National Constitutional Convention ruled 1793 – tried and executed the king, called to liberate world from tyrants, armies spread, war w/almost all Europe, extremists come to power, committee of public safety, executed 2500 year 1794 – war going well, committee no longer needed, overthrew Robspierre In a Nutshell 1799 – Napoleon

France • Napoleon -Large French Empire -Beaten by Russia -Codified Law

France

EFFECT 1. Representative governments S

EFFEC 1. Representative governments TS 2. Nationalism • Extreme patriotism

EFFEC 1. Representative governments TS 2. Nationalism 3. Individual Rights

Decleration of Independence “We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal , that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are Life, Liberty, and the pursuit of Happiness” link

Decleration of the Rights of man and the Citizen “The aim of all political association is the preservation of the natural and imprescriptible rights of man. These rights are liberty, property, security, and resistance to oppression” link