THE ROAD TO REVOLUTION 1700 1774
THE AMERICAN ENLIGHTENMENT INTELLECTUAL AND SOCIAL REVOLUTION
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French revolutionaries sought to create a society in which the rights of the individual would be more important than that of a government.
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The revolution helped revitalize the French economy by adopting an economic system based on the natural laws of supply and demand.
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The supporters of the revolution wanted to institute a new constitution in which women would be given a more equal status.
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Revolutionaries hoped to establish a new legal system in which an absolute monarchy would govern according to Enlightenment principles.
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Which of the following accurately describes one impact of the Enlightenment on the French Revolution? French revolutionaries sought to create a society in which the rights of the individual would be more important than that of a government.
Detailed explanation-3: -The ideals of liberty and equality, that were needed to overthrow Louis XVI, emerged first from the writings of important and influential thinkers of the Age of Enlightenment.
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.