AP European History DBQ 2008 Form B On November 24, 1793, the National Convention replaced the Gregorian calendar with a new revolutionary calendar. In response to the new calendar, in the period 1789 to 1806, several different reactions evolved. Based on the documents provided, when looked at upon an intellectual basis, the calendar seemed perfect; where some found the new calendar to work well, others proclaimed it inconvenience; and through overthrowing Christianity in the calendar and everyday life, problems began to arise. The documents can be divided into three main groups. The first group of documents shows the intellectual thought behind the creation of the revolutionary calendar and the reasons for its adoption.
In 1789 France abolished all privileges and came up with the Declaration of Rights of Man 1789. These events led to the debate “Was the French Revolution Worth its Human?” which is being argued by Peter Kropotkin and Simon Schama. In this debate Peter Kropotkin argues yes and Simon Schama argues no. Reviewing the debate from Kropotkins point of view the author of the article “The Great French Revolution 1789-1793”, the French Revolution was indeed worth its human cost. Although many deaths occurred, France did change tremendously.
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.
Hamilton states that the only solution to this foreseen problem is to form a union with institutions for resolving disputes, now known as the United States court system, to prevent devastating conflicts between the states. Alexander Hamilton can be credited with the birth of our modern Constitution of the United States. In 1786 at the Annapolis Convention, Hamilton proposed a future meeting to fix the problems within the Articles of Confederation, which was at the time the 13 colonies working constitution.
The Declaration of Independence of the United States of America In the 18th century, the ideas of modernity are spreading all around Europe while at the same time, in the British colonies of the New World, a revolt is organized against the despotic control exercised by Georges III, the King of England. This rebellion conducted to the Declaration of Independence of 1776, this is the culmination of the quest for independence of the thirteen colonies. This document and the revolution that accompanies it are unique to this time, and are major elements in the construction of modernity. It is not colonized people in revolt against the colonizers, but settlers themselves who proclaim their independence from the state they have always depended on. These are colonies which are separated from the motherland.
How did the Enlightenment threaten traditional culture?- A philosophical movement in eighteenth-century Europe that fostered the belief that one could reform society by discovering rational laws that governed social behavior and that were just as scientific as the laws of physics. 5. What caused the American Revolution? (Full Answer)- The British government had long imposed taxes to pay for the cost of troops stationed in the colonies to defend against French forces in Canada. When the British gained control of Canada from France fewer troops were needed.
Finally, in 1783 the Treaty of Paris was signed by both the British Empire and America, ending the American Revolution. Generally speaking, the three revolutions: American, French, and Haitian had similar events. The American, French, and Haitian Revolutions were heavily influenced by the Enlightenment ideals: liberty and equality. John Locke, an English philosopher, influenced the Founding Fathers of the American Revolution. He declared how all men are born with inalienable rights: life, liberty, and property.
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.
Mid-Term 4. Discuss the legacies of the French Revolution, or of Napoleon (or both, if you prefer.) To what degree was the world a different place in 1815 from what it had been in 1789? Why were these changes so “revolutionary? Explain, citing specific examples.
The American Revolution was clearly more of a movement to implement enlightenment ideals. What can be perceived as conservative about the revolution is only its beginning, when the Colonists realized they needed to take action against the unfair taxation and the other things that separated them from the British. But that was merely what made them feel they needed to overthrow their government. The Declaration would’ve eventually come along anyway, still heavily based on Enlightenment ideals. Without those Enlightenment ideals it would’ve been believed that it was fine for the British to continue what they were doing.