MAKING OF A NEW NATION 1776 1800
THE FRENCH REVOLUTION
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encouraging the poor to kill anti-revolutionaries
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stressing the importance of the monarchy
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creating a class system in France
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instilling a belief in the natural rights of man
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Detailed explanation-1: -Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Swiss philosopher, writer, and Enlightenment thinker. Much of his philosophy influenced the French Revolution. During the Age of Enlightenment, great thinkers saw how humans were able to establish a new sense of logic and reason.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Enlightenment influenced the French Revolution to a great extent by introducing new ideas that encouraged questioning of authority and religion, advancing people’s outlook on commodities, and forcing citizens to compare their need with the Republic’s needs.
Detailed explanation-3: -Summary: Enlightenment ideals of rationalism and intellectual and religious freedom pervaded the American colonial religious landscape, and these values were instrumental in the American Revolution and the creation of a nation without an established religion.
Detailed explanation-4: -The eighteenth century was marked by the emergence of new ideas and philosophies that underpinned the ideals of the French Revolution: religion, superstition and irrational beliefs were being replaced by science, reason and new theories about the rights of man.