This is because Louis’ personal actions that he took betrayed people and led them to disillusionment against him as they wanted to press for a trial for the king. Louis’ decision to dismiss Necker again caused a negative outcome which can be seen when the third estate stormed the Bastille in 1789. This had a huge impact on France and changed the attitudes and ideology of the people involved or who supported it. Prior to 1792 we can see how Louis’ actions showed why there was a republican emergence. One event which is significant to emphasise this was the calling of the Estate general in 1789.
History Essay Outline Topic Question 1. To what extent were weaknesses of the French monarchy responsible for the outbreak of revolution in France in 1789? (May 2000) Introduction -Explain the monarchy. King Louis XIV and Marie-Antoinette and why the French people hated them... how did King Louis XIV become so hated and why? Which estate hated them the most?
When they won the French and Indian War, England had to make a few reforms. King George III declared the Proclamation of 1763, which forbid American colonists from settling west of the Appalachian Mountains in an effort the stabilize relations with the Native Americans. However this angered many colonists who had land grants there and in turn, the Proclamation Line was ignored. This was the start of a series of disagreements between the two lands, as the American citizens began to gain a stronger taste for independence. Enlightenment writers such as John Locke, who patented the idea that it
The French revolution and the Haitian alike began with inspiration from prior revolutions and their ideology (such as the American revolution). Furthermore using Enlightenment ideals to fire their cause was important in both; there was a want for social reform a nation without elites of masters (slaves) and freedoms. Another trait shared by both was mass riot and revolts. In France the was “The Reign of Terror” in 1793 were many people were executed. In Haiti there were mass slave revolts, that were the base for the entire revolution.
“How far do you agree with the view that the flight to Varennes fatally damaged the prospects of successfully implementing a Constitutional Monarchy by 1791-92?” The downfall of the constitutional monarchy in France between 1789 and 1792 was a result of a number of factors that each showed a varying degree of contribution, which can be seen through evidence within a range of sources. The most fundamental factor aiding the collapse of the constitutional monarchy can be seen to be the consequences of Louis personal failings, in particular through the Flight of Varennes, and is stressed heavily by both historians in sources 1 and 3. Other factors that can be seen to be important in damaging the successful implementation of a Constitutional Monarchy was the War with Austria in 1792, highlighted in source 2 especially, and the significance of the radical minority in France at the time in sources 1 and 3. There are several links that the sources make between one another in relation to the interpretations by the historians themselves, with source 1 also underlining the impact of radicals and the war as contributing factors to the Flight to Varennes, and sources 1 and 3 differing in the overall significance of the Flight to Varennes to the failure of the Constitutional Monarchy’s implantation. Source 1 highlights the main factor in this controversy, the Flight to Varennes, and underlines its significance as the ‘most immediate consequence’ in Louis reign as King.
Successful. Impact of the French Revolution (1789) Ø It has been said that the French revolution strengthen rather than weaken the position of the ruling elite as there was more oppression and counter revolutionary explosion of popular loyalism to the current system. Ø Some say the Jacobean threat was not that great and they did not have much in common with the French Revolutionaries. The British Jacobin had no structure or the tactics necessary to a revolutionary threat. Ø Opponents of the French revolution saw the London Correspondent society as French Jacobins.
However Wikipedia and the textbook place different levels of importance among these main causes. Spielvogel seemed to believe that the lack of governmental power within the government of France and the increasing economic debt were the main reasons the peasants revolted against the royals and nobles. He says “A growing resentment of the entire seigneurial system, with its fees and obligations, greatly exacerbated by the economic and fiscal activities of the great estate holders-whether noble or bourgeois-in the difficult decade of the 1780s, created the conditions for a popular uprising”. He also states that the fall of the Bastille and the king finally surrendering to the demands of the Third Estate led to the peasant population “taking matters into their own hands”. Meanwhile, Wikipedia places less importance on the violence of the revolution and more on the diplomatic and political causes and changes of the Revolution.
Marxists argue that religion promises us happiness, but this is an illusion hiding the truth; true happiness can only be found in a revolution. Finally, early capitalists used religion as a means of keeping their workers sober and willing to work. However, Marxism can be criticised as religion is no longer used to justify the status of powerful leaders, for example PMs and Monarchs. Also, Marxism ignores secularisation and it can be argued that religion is not a conservative force as it can cause social change. A
What do these things have in common? They all come from in between the years of 1787 and 1799: the French Revolution. To understand why these events occurred, one must understand why the rebellion began, and there are two very prominent causes for the French Revolution: the lack of a system of government, especially the taxation problem, and the inconsistent characters of the Crown (Louis XVI and Marie Antoinette). The primary and most apparent cause of the French Revolution was the system of government at the time in France,as it was not a solid system; there were so many variations. There was an inconsistent court system; there was no single unified system of law, and, also, there was an inefficient form of taxation where the nobles weren’t taxed.
The Revolution transformed religion in many ways. To start, the Revolution gave great freedom in opinion not just religiously but also gave many people the right to vote, even though it did not give all Americans “equal liberty” it would still be a break through in going the correct direction of American freedom. The theory of religious liberty was not the cause of freedom of worship it actually arose from religious pluralism. Some religions gave people ways to break laws, due to the law being against a religious belief. However, before the revolution many different religions were still being discriminated against with voting and public funds, some people in Massachusetts were even jailed for refusing to pay taxes to support their local ministers.