FRENCH REVOLUTION
FRANCE UNDER NAPOLEON
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The belief that all men should be equal
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The natural rights men are born with:life, liberty, and property
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The belief that the people should govern themselves or have representation
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All of the above are true statements
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Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -So what was it? The Enlightenment, sometimes called the ‘Age of Enlightenment’, was a late 17th-and 18th-century intellectual movement emphasizing reason, individualism, and skepticism.
Detailed explanation-3: -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.
Detailed explanation-4: -There were five basic ideas of the Enlightenment: reason, nature, happiness, progress and liberty. For the people of France, the most important of these was the doctrine of Liberty.