French revolution and American revolution (last update: 04/05/2021)

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Overview of events and people involved in American revolution and French revolution. These are more connected than one would say...

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Movement, form of goverment

13 colonies

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America colonizied by British

Great Britain

British imposed new taxes

1763

Royal proclamation 1763

Proclamation declared by the British crown at the end of the French and Indian War in North America.Indian were moved to reservation in Apalachian Mountains. Colonists couldn't move there. That made them angry.

1765

increased British debts

weak executive powers

5 September 1793 to 28 July 1794

Origins

Out of money after war

tax on tea

1773

Seven Years' War

Napoleon Bonaparte

The Reign of Terror

• the most bloody part of the revolution
• In the name of ridding the nation of the enemies of the Revolution, an estimated 500,000 suspects were arrested, 17,000 were officially executed and 25,000 died in summary executions, i.e. without benefit of a full and fair trial. Hence the total death toll was around 40,000.

trade boycott against Britain

the end

1774

Boston Tea Party

• Incident in which 342 chests of tea belonging to the British East India Company were thrown from ships into Boston Harbor by American patriots disguised as Mohawk Indians.
• The Americans were protesting both
  • a tax on tea (taxation without representation),
  • and the perceived monopoly of the East India Company.

dictatorship

The Directory

• the governing five-member committee

28 July 1794

First Continental Congress

Successes:

1. Colonial unity.

training army

First republic

American War of Independence

also known as American Revolutionary War

• 1775–1783

National Convention

•  the first French government organized as a republic

guillotined

June 1775

George Washington

Committee of Public Safety

• de facto executive goverment
• role was to protect the newly established republic against foreign attacks and internal rebellion

most prominent

Second Continental Congress

4 July 1776

fought in

costly involvements in wars

Constitutional monarchy

1793

Maximilien Robespierre

tax reforms

inability to tax priviliged orders

American revolution

The decleration of independence

The decleration of independence explained why the Thirteen Colonies at war with the Kingdom of Great Britain regarded themselves as thirteen independent sovereign states, no longer under British rule.

Lafayette

• Sometimes knows as “The Hero of the Two Worlds” becase of his accomplishments in the American War of Indepence and in the French revolution.
• A French aristocrat and military officer

Financial crisis

lavish spendings

the start of

Estates-General meet at Versailles

The three estates were:

• First estate. Entire clergy.
• Secord estate. Nobility and royalty.
• Third estate. Everybody else.

King wasn't in any estate.

1792

Constitution of the United States of America

• the doctrin of the separation of power
  • the legislative – the Congress
  • the executive – the president and subordinate officers
  • the juridical – the Supreme Court and other federal courts
• concepts of federalism

first president

French revolution

against

divided by fundamental question:

Should they vote by head, giving the advantage to the Third Estate, or by estate, in which case the two privileged orders of the realm might outvote the third?

Benjamin Franklin

old regime

absolutism

Third Estate

freedom

17 June 1789

Bill of Rights

• ten amendments to the United States Constitution.
• specific protections of individual liberty and justice and place restrictions on the powers of government

Thomas Jefferson

influenced

Louis XVI and Marie-Antoinette

were guillotined on charges of counterrevolution

National Assembly

helped to write

influenced by

the end of

14 July 1789

Storming of the Bastille

• The Bastille was a symbol of absolutism.

consulted with

Declaration of the Rights of Man and of the Citizen

mostly influnced events of

National Constituent Assembly

26 August 1789

Presumption of innocence

Enlightment

• an intellectual and philosophical movement
• dominated the world of ideas in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries

Jean-Jacques Rousseau