EMERGENCE OF USA
POLITICAL EFFECTS OF THE REVOLUTION
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Revolutionary leaders strengthened the authority of the Catholic Church.
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Most French aristocrats willingly agreed to share their wealth with the lower classes.
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Revolutionary leaders demanded equality under the law for all social classes.
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Revolutionary leaders immediately abolished slavery in the French colonies in the West Indies.
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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: -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.
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. Specifically, the writings of John Locke, Jean-Jacques Rousseau and Baron de Montesquieu greatly influenced the revolutionaries in France.
Detailed explanation-4: -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.