Name: Alia hawa Test Date: Democratic Revolutions Study Guide 1. What is the Magna Carta? It kept king john from punishing freedom through the law of the land. 2. What caused the English Civil War? What is the English Civil War? Well, Charles 1st was keeping all the power and not letting the church have any control. The English civil war was against Charles followers and Oliver’s followers. 3. What is the Glorious Revolution? The deposition of James the 2nd 4. What is the…
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The American Revolution was caused by the increasing number of restrictions placed upon the colonies by the British. These British acts only benefited Great Britain and not the colonies, which greatly angered the colonist. After the French and Indian War, King George the III was left with massive amounts of war debt. As as result, the British were only concerned with making as much money off the colonies as they could, in order to pay off this debt and imposed taxes on the colonies without their…
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revolutionary was the American Revolution? One of the most important American leaders of the American Revolution, George Washington states that the enemy (The British) leaves them no choice but to bravely resist. They either win, or they die… but if they die, they are not dying for no reason but for their country’s honor. A revolution is a sudden or complete marked change in something. Some revolutions may cause little change while others can cause dramatic changes. Lets talk about revolution, in specific…
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democratic society. The local, state, and Colonial needs were different than those of Imperial Britain, and this functioned as a drive for evolutionary governmental, social, and cultural changes. The issues American colonists had with Great Britain drove them to strive for equality in many aspects of american culture. One of the most influential events to allowed radical new ideas to flourish during the…
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The French and North American revolution had very similar goals from 1775-1850CE but were different in their outcomes in the revolutionary process. From 1775-1850CE the North American and French revolutions had very similar goals. North America’s revolution was to gain freedom from Great Britain. This was due to Great Britain completely controlling all of the 13 Colonies’ laws. For example, Great Britain enacted the Quartering act in 1765 which required the colonists to provide housing for the…
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and the changes have had a significant influence on production and caused capitalism to flourish to western part of the world. Today the U.S. uses capitalism a lot and it plays a big part in the rest of the world and makes the nature of labor more efficient through division and more desirable through self-motivation. John Locke was another good philosopher of his time he wrote the book Second Treatise of Civil Government. Locke thought that people set up civil governments to protect life, liberty…
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Rapid Rise to an Influential Innovation "Of all the men we meet with, nine parts of ten are what they are, good or evil useful or not, by their education. Tis this that makes the great difference in mankind." (Locke) John Locke explains in this quotation, the importance of education. Locke is a man to stress education and he expresses in this quote how education is what makes a man. He believes no matter a man's propensity, naturally, or a man's born inclinations, it is his education in which will…
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Declaration of Independence gave the thirteen different colonies power to be their own states. The declaration of independence was written by Thomas Jefferson along with Benjamin Franklin of Pennsylvania, John Adams of Massachusetts, Roger Sherman of Connecticut and Robert Livingston from New York and adopted on July 4, 1766. It was written in order to explain why the colonies need independence. It was passed after a lot of revisions and corrections by the different authors. It holds three main…
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the importance of church doctrine. This caused the importance to switch to individuals and their experiences spiritually. *The Enlightenment- The Enlightenment was an 18th century philosophical movement in Europe that stressed the importance of reason in analyzing and investigating.This led to a critical reappraisal of existing ideas and social institutions, and how they could be changed and improved,through the use of reason. John Locke- That the John Locke Foundation is named after the 17th century…
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Consolidation of National Gov./ Age of Absolutism 1.) During the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries, states in northern Europe organized themselves in order to dominate European politics and become great powers. 2.) These nations believed different ways of government such as a parliamentary monarchy in England, or political absolutism, in France. 3.) These changes in politics created major powers by the mid-eighteenth century, these powers being: Great Britain, France, Austria, Prussia, and Russia…
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