Although the French Revolution was at the heart of the Enlightenment, similar ideas served as driving forces of the American, Haitian, and Latin American Revolutions as well. ... French revolutionary Jean-Jacques Rousseau introduced this idea of natural rights and inspired other countries to evaluate the nature of man and origins of inequality1. ... The French felt that intuitions were corrupting the nature of man, and believed that starting over without them would be most effective in restoring order within the country. ... They adopted the French concept of "Freedom, equality, brotherh...

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Enlightenment greatly influenced the French Revolution to emphasize the importance of the person who caused a boost to the universal rights through the use of reason and logic that caused people to examine the intelligence of the social hierarchy traditional, and challenging traditional authority figures, such as King of France. " The Enlightenment and religion is so important to argued that an exaggeration of the role of deism has led to a lack of commitment to traditional religious forces for change (Black). ... "While Enlightenment thinkers were simply looking at the world in a more empir...

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The south was predominantly catholic thus bonding with France and Austria, so to join these two together would ensure deplorability of difference and religion. ... The failure of the Frankfurt Diet and the 1848 Revolution influentially and undoubtedly suppressed a great bearing on the failure of unification before 1860. ... Aware of these happenings, Austria, in account of her "might" crushed the common military union at Erfurt at Olmutz during the 1848 revolution, thus disabling and preventing further nationalist movements forward. ... There was an equally important factor of lack of for...

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Jacob Leisler, his grandfather and chief counselor to the Counts of Oettingen, Reverend Jacob Victorian Leisler, his father and pastor of the Frankfurt-am-Main French Reformed congregation, and the noted Huguenot theologian Simon Goulart. ... In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 1689 when, in the wake of England's Glorious Revolution, he assumed the role of King William III's governor of New York. ... Other historians see in Leisler's assumption of the New York government a forerunner of the American Revolution. ... In the New World, Leisler catapulted to fame in 16...

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Hobbes's pragmatic view of government, which stressed the equality of individuals, opened the way to free criticism of government and the right to revolution, ideas that Hobbes himself opposed. ... Thomas Jefferson also echoed Locke in the Declaration of Independence and in later pronouncements defending revolutions, attacking paternalistic government, and upholding free expression of unpopular opinions. In France, Locke's philosophy was taken over by the leaders of the French Enlightenment, notably by the author and philosopher Voltaire. ... For Voltaire as for the French philosoph...

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The common aims of the Great powers were beginning to take shape; France was surrounded by a group of buffer states to add protection against possible French aggression in the future. ... Russia on the other hand was slow to benefit from the technological discoveries of the industrial revolution; their economy grew at a much more sedate pace. France, where on the fall of Napoleon the Bourbon dynasty had been restored, although losing a great deal of its empire after the defeat of Napoleon re-emerged as a major power through its expanding commercial entrepreneurial ventures and its g...

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Once they had begun funding the French struggle against the nationalist movement in Vietnam, the Americans saw an imminent opportunity to possibly apply their own colonial model there, but "called upon the French or the Chinese for the raw intelligence information that informed their reports to Washington," (Bradley 94). ... [lacking] traditions of indigenous governance," with French rule being an insult to that injury (83, 84). ... This was also largely paradoxical to the anti-colonist foundation of the United States, and brings to mind Patrick Henry's reflection of American sentimen...

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