MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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the importance of the Bastille.
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an end to aristocratic privileges.
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a movement to restore the monarchy.
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equal rights for women in political life.
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Detailed explanation-1: -Reflecting Enlightenment thought, the Declaration of the Rights of Man and the Citizen proclaimed. the importance of the Bastille. an end to aristocratic privileges.
Detailed explanation-2: -Reflecting Enlightenment thought, the declaration proclaimed that all men were free and equal before the law, that appointment to public office should be based on talent, and that no group should be exempt from taxation. Freedom of speech and of the press were affirmed.
Detailed explanation-3: -Many of the reforms favored by Enlightenment writers appeared in the declaration: freedom of religion, freedom of the press, no taxation without representation, elimination of excessive punishments, and various safeguards against arbitrary administration.
Detailed explanation-4: -The Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen was inspired by the writings of such Enlightenment thinkers as Montesquieu, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and Voltaire.
Detailed explanation-5: -In its preamble and its 17 articles, it sets out the “natural and inalienable” rights, which are freedom, ownership, security, resistance to oppression; it recognizes equality before the law and the justice system, and affirms the principle of separation of powers.