FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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the Declaration of Independence
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the Scientific Revolution
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the Enlightenment
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all of the above
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Detailed explanation-1: -Progressivism is the belief that through their powers of reason and observation, humans can make unlimited, linear progress over time; this belief was especially important as a response to the carnage and upheaval of the English Civil Wars in the 17th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Even though it led to the “Reign of Terror”, and then to another absolute ruler, the governments that were developed between 1789 and 1794 contained the ideals of the Enlightenment: democracy, citizenship, and individualism and gave the common people more freedom to express their thoughts.
Detailed explanation-3: -The French Revolution and the American Revolution were almost direct results of Enlightenment thinking. The idea that society is a social contract between the government and the governed stemmed from the Enlightenment as well.
Detailed explanation-4: -The concepts in the Declaration come from the tenets of the Enlightenment, including individualism, the social contract as theorized by Jean-Jacques Rousseau, and the separation of powers espoused by Montesquieu. The spirit of secular natural law rests at the foundations of the Declaration.
Detailed explanation-5: -The causes of the French Revolution can be narrowed to five main factors: the Estate System, absolutism, Enlightenment ideas, food shortages, and the American Revolution. The Estate System placed people into groups based on birth and was known as the Ancien Regime.