What caused the French Revolution?
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 “Be always at war with your vices, at peace with your neighbors, and let each new year find you a better man.”
“It is easier to prevent bad habits than to break them.”
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“My brave fellows, you have done all I asked you to do, and more than can be reasonably expected; but your country is at stake, your wives, your houses and all that you hold dear. You have worn yourselves out with fatigues and hardships, but we know not how to spare you. If you will consent to stay one month longer, you will render that service to the cause of liberty, and to your country, which you probably can never do under any other circumstances.”
“We have abundant reason to rejoice, that, in this land, the light of truth and reason has triumphed over the power of bigotry and superstition, and that every person may here worship God according to the dictates of his own heart.”
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rev·o·lu·tion (noun)
– a forcible overthrow of a government or social order in favor of a new system.
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Elements of:
– Religion
– Territory
– Language
– History
– Culture
– Pride in one’s country
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(Reuters) MARCH 2007 – Britain marks 200 years on March 25 since it enacted a law banning the trans-Atlantic slave trade, although full abolition of slavery did not follow for another generation.
CHRONOLOGY
a·bol·ish (verb)
formally put an end to (a system, practice, or institution).
example – “the tax was abolished in 1977”
ab·o·li·tion – the action or an act of abolishing a system, practice, or institution.
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Sojourner Truth is best known for her improvised speech on racial inequalities, “Ain’t I a Woman?” delivered at the Ohio Women’s Rights Convention in 1851.
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Learn about the movement for women’s equality that precipitated the Seneca Falls Convention in 1848, and what its attendees – including Elizabeth Cady Stanton and Lucretia Mott – hoped to achieve.
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Declaration of the Rights of Woman and of the Female Citizen (1791)
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A Vindication of the Rights of Woman (1792)
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Composer, Pianist (1756–1791)
A prolific artist, Austrian composer Wolfgang Mozart created a string of operas, concertos, symphonies and sonatas that profoundly shaped classical music.
Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart learned the piano at the age of three, and soon developed his skills in all musical forms. Widely recognized as one of the greatest composers of all time, he produced over 600 works.
Baroque composer George Handel was born February 23, 1685, in Halle, Germany. In 1704 Handel made his debut as an opera composer with Almira. He produced several operas with the Royal Academy of Music before forming the New Royal Academy of Music in 1727. When Italian operas fell out of fashion, he started composing oratorios, including Messiah. George Handel died April 14, 1759, in London, England
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Johann Sebastian Bach (1685 – 1750) was a German composer and musician of the Baroque period.
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The Enlightenment stands as the moment the West withdrew from religion and superstitions and found its faith in REASON.
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Adam Smith (1723 – 1790) was a Scottish economist, philosopher and author as well as a moral philosopher, a pioneer of political economy and a key figure during the Scottish Enlightenment, also known as ”The Father of Economics” or ”The Father of Capitalism”.
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Denis Diderot (1713 -1784) French man of letters and philosopher who, from 1745 to 1772, served as chief editor of the Encyclopédie, one of the principal works of the Age of Enlightenment.
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau was a Genevan philosopher, writer and composer. (1712–1778)
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Philosopher, Government Official, Legal Professional, Writer (1689–1755)
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Academic, Philosopher, Political Scientist, Journalist, Historian (1588–1679)
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Philosopher (1632–1704)
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