The main problem facing Henry was restoring faith and strength in the monarchy. He also had to deal with other claimants, with some of them having a far stronger claim than his own. To deal with this, Henry strengthened the government and his own power, at the expense of the nobles. Henry also had to deal with a treasury that was nearly bankrupt. The English monarchy had never been one of the wealthiest of Europe and even more so after the War of the Roses.
After the French Revolution though, the republic slowly began shifting to a totalitarian regime, first under the Committee of Public Safety and then completely under Napoleon Bonaparte .The facts show that the American Revolution was more successful in establishing a stable and long-lasting republican government that started a precedent for Europe, while the French Revolution’s republic failed to last, being turned into a totalitarian regime. Events leading up to the American and French Revolutions occurred for a similar reason: unfair representation. The people in the American colonies became progressively upset with Britain and its Parliament when they refused the colonists’ representation, while still imposing many different taxes on the colonists. Upset over this tax on one of their most valued imports, the colonists dumped all the tea into the Boston Harbor during the Boston Tea Party. This showed that the colonists were willing, and able, to live without depending on the British government.
There manifesto was the agreement of people which favoured the ordinary citizens and wanted them to gain more rights than rich property owners. They organized the Putney debates where army general council met with leveller spokesmen and they agreed that they should break the back of the rank and file agitation. The leveller’s strong influence on the army played a role in the failure as it made it difficult for the army and parliament to agree with one
U.S. colonies were being controlled by the British Empire and forced to pay taxes to the king. The colonies were upset that they were forced to pay these taxes, but had no voice on the government. In reality, there would’ve been no revolution had there been no French involvement. America had been left to govern itself from 1715 until 1740, called the period of “Benign neglect.” They wanted to establish their own system of government and not be controlled by an abroad nation. America had taken note on how two great historical powers, Carthage and Rome, tore each other to pieces instead of joining forces.
Tudor England (1485-1603) < The Middle Ages... | Main historical events... | UK History Menu... | > The Stuarts... | | With the end of the Wars of the Roses and the accession of Henry VII (1485-1509), England entered a period of renaissance under the new dynasty of the Tudors. Henry avoided wars and supported ship-building and trade. By the end of his reign he had accumulated great wealth for his successor, Henry VIII (1509-1547), who strengthened the royal power but wasted much of his father's money on wars with France.Henry VIII soon proved to be a tyrannical and cruel king. Although the immediate reason for the break with the Roman Church was the Pope's refusal to allow Henry to divorce his first wife, Catherine of
“E pluribus Unum.” Out of many, one. A single American colony could not take on “Mother England” but the American colonies UNITED, acting together as one had the power to bring down England and lead a revolution. During 1607 the British were very involved in the American lifestyle: the who’s, what’s, where’s, why’s and how’s. It was not until all of the Acts and taxes (stamp act, tea act, tax on molasses and stamps etc.) imposed upon the colonies that thy began to open their eyes and detach from “Mother England” who was supposed to take care of them but did no such thing, that the colonies began to join together.
The hopes for the birth of democratic government in Europe during the revolutions of 1848 had been dashed by counterrevolutions that entrenched the Old Order of monarchy and aristocracy. Could the United States endure as one nation, indivisible, with a government based on majority rule? The secession of eleven states in 1861 represented the greatest challenge to survival. The nation met that challenge and prevailed in 1865. Since then no state has seriously and substantively (as opposed to rhetorically) threatened to
As king of Spain Charles has received most criticism from historians for the financial management of his Spanish inheritance. To what extent is this criticism deserved? Finance was Charles greatest problem as the ruler of not just Spain but also the German states, much of Italy and Flanders, including its lucrative cloth market. In theory each state would provide enough money to serve its own interests and each country would not be excessively financing another. Charles, however, used money from any region that was willing to give it to him to finance any of his many wars.
When Henry was made king he was short of money because he had fought lots of expensive wars. Henry then noticed that the church had a lot of money. If he took over the church all of its treasury would be his. Source 1 states that “monasteries were very rich and owned about a quarter of the land in the country”, so he could then close down the monasteries, take their money and sell of the land. Henry needed the money for power so that he could then build a stronger army and fight more wars.
By exiling the Huguenots he lost a lot of potential revenue, and the lavish building of Versailles was not cheap. Moreover, he did not have the revenue to keep up his enormous army and after the early 1680’s his success in wars went in a never ending downward spiral. Perhaps if Louis XIV had learned to manage his money better and not gone to war so readily, his subjects would have been happier and he would have had an even more successful reign, but without a doubt he still remains one of the most powerful rulers in