During the 19th century, every aspect of British life was transformed by industrial, social and cultural development. The French Revolution inspired reformers in Britain as much as it frightened the British Crown and landowning classes. Nonetheless, the British government, who was ru8n by the Tories at the time, seemed impervious to revolutionary change. Anti-government cartoons in the 1790s often included the most scabrous, even treasonable, representations of King George III. All threats of revolution were taken seriously.
To what extent was Pitts repressive policies the main reason for his success in defeating the radical challenge in 1801? Outside of parliament and of the rich and powerful there were many people who wanted change; the French revolution had a profound and ongoing effect on political, social, and religious life and on the government in Britain. Many people wanted to see the changes that were occurring in France to happen in Britain, as many of the working class people were not happy with there role in society and they wanted reform. Pitt acted quickly against the threat posed by the radicals, the new societies and the publications they produced, this was known as Pitts ‘reign on terror’. Fresh legislation restricting freedom of speech, writing and assembly was passed from 1792 to 1801, to reinforce these new laws the yeomanry were called in to reinforce these new laws.
Because of Napoleon’s selfishness when conquering other countries he is considered a tyrant. Even though Napoleon was a tyrant, he still had many accomplishments to help benefit France. Napoleon ended the French revolution, therefore ending many of the country’s problems. Before Napoleon, there was constant violence, acts for revolution, and economic instability. Napoleon overthrew the Directory in a coup d’etat in 1799 and was the beginning of the Napoleonic Era.
Therefore, they relied heavily on other groups for their plan to work. The Irish Volunteers and the Irish Citizen Army were manipulated by the I.R.B, who was determined to organise the rebellion against British Rule in Ireland. The IRB staged the Rising when “Britain’s attention was firmly fixed on the war.” 1 This added the element of surprise the IRB aimed to achieve, giving them the upper hand. The First World War gave way to a truce between unionists and nationalists but also caused animosities between nationalist groups. For some home rule was enough to satisfy a need control over internal affairs, for others it was merely a stepping stone in the “evolution of Irish Freedom.” 2 the outbreak of war made these differences more pronounced.
While the sale of the territory by Spain back to France in 1800 went largely unnoticed, fear of an eventual French invasion spread nationwide when, in 1801, Napoleon sent a military force to secure New Orleans. Southerners feared that Napoleon would free all the slaves in Louisiana, which could trigger slave uprisings elsewhere. [8] Though Jefferson urged moderation, Federalists sought to use this against Jefferson and called for hostilities against France. Undercutting them, Jefferson took up the banner and threatened an alliance with Britain, although relations were uneasy in that direction. [8] In 1801 Jefferson supported France in its plan to take back Saint-Domingue, then under control of Toussaint Louverture after a slave rebellion.
France said that John Jay’s treaty with the British violated the Franco-American alliance made during the War of Independence. In public, France rejected the US, though secretly sent three agents, known as X, Y, and Z, to request that the Americans pay a huge bribe to start the negotiations. President Adams revealed the “XYZ Affair” to the American public in April of 1798. The people’s response was the slogan, “millions for defense, but not one cent for tribute.” Worrying about war with France made the government create the Navy and increase the size of the Army. American ships were authorized to attack any French vessels harassing them.
The supposed growth of external and internal opposition which obliged those who were determined to protect the gains from 1789/90 to resort to more ruthless methods. Serious threats to the Revolution from inside France itself, both from those who felt the revolution had gone too far & those who felt it had not gone far enough Louis obstructed or vetoed laws to deport refractory priests, dismissed Girondin ministers Flander’s Regiment. Marie Antionette. Those who wanted a return to pre-1989 La Grand Peur. The Federalist revolt surrendered Toulon to the British after the Girondins had been expelled by the Jacobins Defection of Lafayette Vendee Rebellion - rebellion in defense of the church, bread shortages, conscription and against Parisian intrusion into provincial life.
For centuries, historians have described the French Revolution, filled with aggression, terror and human injustice, as a radical revolution. The oppression and disparity of France’s social classes caused the French Revolution to turn violent and remain mired in a monarchy ruled by despots. In contrast, the American Revolution fostered the transformation of thirteen independent colonies and their different socio-economic classes into a single unified nation. As the different people of the thirteen colonies rallied around a common goal of liberty and freedom from tyranny, the American Revolution became more and more radical. The American Revolution was more radical and had much more significance than the French Revolution because the American Revolution was a catalyst for real, historic and permanent change.
Their main reason for that was that the creation of new states would decrease their power in congress. The Louisiana Purchase was not the only time Jefferson adopted the ideas of federalists about loose construction of the constitution. After he was reelected, war soon broke out in Europe between English and French. British needed more manpower and financial aid for the war soon began impressing American sailors and stealing their cargo. This made trade between the United States and Europe unsafe.
William Ottenjohn The Portable Edmund Burke Edmund burke was a quintessential forerunner of the revolution. All though he was only a forerunner in thought he helped to set the stage for how the rest of Europe would view the French revolution. Burke did not initially condemn the French Revolution. In many of his letters he wrote how England was gazing with astonishment at a French struggle for Liberty and not knowing whether it would be for the better of the content of if it would be disastrous for everyone involved. Then events on 5–6 October 1789, in which a mob of Parisian women marched on Versailles and took King Louis XVI turn to Paris, turned Burke against the entire movement because it became to radical.