During the fourteenth, fifteenth and sixteenth centuries a kind of parliament known as the Estates General composed of representatives of the clergy, the nobility and the common people, had met at irregular intervals. ... The reign of terror, the period of greatest chaos during the French Revolution, showed that liberty is not so easy to earn, many lives were sacrificed when trying to reach it. ... Slavery had changed Southern society so much that the North and the South no longer shared enough in common to exist as a single nation. ... Just as the lack of liberty black people suffered durin...

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