1. Revolutions
Ideas change the world

2. 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?
Hawaii, Texas

3. 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
DIVINE RIGHT
ABSOLUTISM

4. 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

5. 4 revolutions
Britain – IDEAS
America
France
South America

6. England
Less absolute monarchy by 1600 than other countries (Magna Carta) – but still strong
Have a Parliament, but king calls the shots
Limited monarchy, unwritten constitution, but still a lot of power until late 1600’s

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

8. France Revolution Three Estates -First Estate: Clergy
-Second Estate: Nobility
-Third Estate: everyone else
99% of population
Kings bankrupt; taxes: 1st & 2nd exempt from most
Les Mis, Count of Monte Cristo, Scarlet Pimpernel

9. France
Revolution
Louis XVI
- Kings bankrupt
- Taxes unfair

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

11. France

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

13. France

14. France
So it begins…
National Assembly formed when Estates General would not give 3rd 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

15. France

16. France
So it begins…
National Assembly formed when Estates General would not give 3rd 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
1799 – Napoleon
In a Nutshell

17. France
Napoleon
-Large French Empire
-Beaten by Russia
-Codified Law

18. France

19. EFFECTS Representative governments
Right vs Left – Right: conservative, stay the same/ Left: social change

20. EFFECTS
Representative governments
Nationalism
Extreme patriotism

21. EFFECTS
Representative governments
Nationalism
Individual Rights

22. 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”
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23. 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”
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Revolutions in 1848 – France, Italy, Austria, Prussia