Because of the lost wars such as the War of the League of Augsburg and the Seven Years War with England, France had a war debt of half its annual budget. ... Louis XVI was unable to collect the revenues necessary to maintain the French Government and pay off its war debts. ... A split slowly opened up between the moderate and radical revolutionaries. ... Maximilien Robespierre, the "guiding spirit" of the radical revolutionaries, ruled over the chaos until he was overcome by the moderates, who came back with a fury and finally drove a republican constitution to approval by the National Conven...

• Word Count: 4395
• Approx Pages: 18
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Revolution ended up being the relationship between the two, which promptly broke out as the Revolutionary War in 1775. ... Of course if arguments were finished after one side makes a bold declaration on a piece of paper that would be quite a different history but the war waged on until 1783. ... Carolina but those requirements were abolished before the Civil war. ... The party quick to seize in time for the Civil war was the modern Republican Party, which was mainly favored in the northern states. The Democratic Party was also formed and generally favored by the southern states or states t...

• Word Count: 3055
• Approx Pages: 12
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

My conception of religious liberty was vague when I was younger, but as I got older and I became aware of the world around me, religious liberty has been a topic that everyone has been discussing - not only privately but also in public and especially in the papers. I used to be an uninformed protest...

• Word Count: 3342
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Bill of Rights was a revolutionary measure in that it guaranteed that our federal government could never lawfully advance outside it's authorized bounds and encroach upon the natural born rights of man to act as he chooses as long as the rights of others are not violated in the process. ... Thomas Paine played a pivotal role in galvanizing American thought, with his revolutionary pamphlet, Common Sense, which spoke of such radical ideas as natural rights and independence. ... In the early twentieth century there was a war Americans won and a Depression Americans beat, all of which ...

• Word Count: 7038
• Approx Pages: 28
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Civil War. ... During the Civil War, Ms. ... One Civil War veteran stopped and said to a friend of Ms. ... In the midst of all of this was the looming war in Europe. ... These women are nearly all descended from revolutionary ancestors or from some of the greatest libertarian statesmen this country has produced. ...

• Word Count: 3766
• Approx Pages: 15
• Grade Level: High School